Wednesday, September 07, 2005





Deep Impact spewed the stuff of life

"According to A'Hearn, one of the more interesting findings may be the huge increase in carbon-containing molecules detected in spectral analysis of the ejection plume. This finding indicates comets contain a substantial amount of organic material, so they could have brought such material to Earth early in the planet's history when strikes by asteroids and meteors were common."

Ultimately, could we be unwitting immigrants from the Oort Cloud?

3 comments:

Mac said...

Hoagland isn't the only one aware of the parallels between Deep Impact and the EPH -- which I, for one, find encouraging...

Mac said...

Makes it sound like the spacecraft and Tempel I really GOT OFF!

That headline *is* a bit crypto-pornographic...

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