NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet Bill Steigerwald
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center August 17, 2009 NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. "Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet," said Dr. Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our discovery supports the theory that some of life's ingredients formed in space and were delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite and comet impacts." Read More: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news115.html http://tinyurl.com/mgnbsv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webtv-pals -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
