Keith’s note: According to Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals A Mix Of Life’s Ingredients from NASA: “Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life, as well as a history of saltwater that could have served as the “broth” for these compounds to interact and combine. The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system, increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons.”
- Discoveries from Asteroid Bennu: Media Briefing Graphics, NASA
- Traces Of Ancient Brine Discovered On Asteroid Bennu Contain Minerals Crucial To Life , Smithsonian
- Dust From asteroid Bennu: Building Blocks Of Life And Possible Habitats Were Widespread In Our Solar System, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Exploring The Mysteries Of Asteroid Bennu, Berkeley Lab
- Pristine Asteroid Samples Reveal Secrets Of The Ancient Solar System, Curtin University
- Life’s Building Blocks Discovered In Samples From Asteroid Bennu, Hokkaido University
- More posts about Asteroid Bennu, Astrobiology.com
