Interstellar Organic Matter in Meteorites

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006psrd.repte.105t&link_type=abstract

Planetary Science Research Discoveries

Computer Science

Meteorite, Carbonaceous Chondrite, Isotopes, Isotopic Anomalies, Asteroids

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Organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites contain microscopic regions with surprising enrichments in the ratios of deuterium (D) to hydrogen (H) and nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14. Henner Busemann and his colleagues Andrea Young, Conel Alexander, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, and Larry Nittler at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Peter Hoppe (Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie, Mainz, Germany) demonstrate that organic matter resistant to dissolution by strong acids carry significant isotopic anomalies. They suggest that these anomalies most likely formed in interstellar space before the solar system formed and survived the long journey from molecular cloud to protostellar disk to asteroids.

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