Study: Comets May Have Been Unlikely to Deliver Life’s Ingredients to Early Earth
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A new study led by the University of Cambridge challenges the long-standing idea that comets helped kick-start life on our home planet, suggesting that the icy bodies were largely unable to deliver the concentrated chemical ingredients needed for prebiotic chemistry.
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Study: Comets May Have Been Unlikely to Deliver Life’s Ingredients to Early Earth
A new study led by the University of Cambridge challenges the long-standing idea that comets helped kick-start life on our home planet, suggesting that the icy bodies were largely unable to deliver the concentrated chemical ingredients needed for prebiotic chemistry.
