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Behold a piece from the Tagish Lake meteorite fall of January 2000. The fragments — one of which seen here still encased in a chunk of ice — represent one of the oldest and most pristine samples of the early solar system.
Astronomers have long assumed that organic molecules — compounds fundamental to life — were among the primary components available to build the solar system. Now they have physical evidence to support this idea. The smoking gun comes from measurements of the famed Tagish Lake meteorite.
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