Bennu's Complex Chemicals Found

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‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth

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Asteroid Bennu minerals found to contain complex chemicals critical for the existence of life.

They contain phosphates, ammonia and more than a dozen protein-building amino acids that are present in life forms on Earth as well as the nucleobase building blocks that make up RNA and DNA were found in the samples brought back by OSIRIS -REx.

“ One of the things we will be asking exhibition visitors to think about is how we would treat life if we found it on Mars or another world. Would we stay away from it or try to interact with it? “Or would we try to eat it, like we eat lifeforms with whom we share this planet? Such questions about alien life help us reflect on the ways we engage with other forms of life in our own world.”.

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