Meteorites discovered to carry interstellar carbon
Meteorites discovered to carry interstellar carbon
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=19771
Using new techniques, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of
Terrestrial Magnetism have discovered that meteorites can carry other, much
older passengers as well -- primitive, organic particles that originated billions
of years ago either in interstellar space, or in the outer reaches of the solar
system as it was beginning to coalesce from gas and dust.