Asteroid ‘time capsules’ may help explain how life started on Earth

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Asteroid ‘time capsules’ may help explain how life started on Earth

 
In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs – and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral mining.

But for researcher Nicholas Hud, asteroids play an entirely different role: that of time capsules showing what molecules originally existed in our solar system. Having that information gives scientists the starting point they need to reconstruct the complex pathway that got life started on Earth.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/02/asteroid-time-capsules-may-help-explain-life-started-earth/118456

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So life existed somewhere, ended up on an astroid, survived that process.   Survived a billion years traveling thru space, survived the heat of reentry into whatever atmosphere earth had and then evolved into life here?

How did life start in that far away place?

It's a fantastical story.