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Organics Formed In Early Solar System
Saturday, March 31, 2012 16:17
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Complex organic compounds, including many important to life on Earth, were most probably produced under conditions that likely prevailed in the primordial solar system, according to recent studies of scientists at the University of Chicago and NASA Ames Research Center.
They came to this conclusion after linking computer simulations to laboratory experiments.
Fred Ciesla, assistant professor in geophysical sciences centrifuge tube at UChicago, simulated the dynamics of the solar nebula, the cloud of gas and dust from which the sun and the planets formed…. Rest of article with all images here:
