Contaminated Meteorite
Abstract
One stone of the Orgueil meteorite shower contains an assortment of biogenic materials: coal fragments, seed capsules of the reed Juncus conglomeratus, other plant fragments, and an optically active, water-soluble protein material resembling collagen-derived glues. This sample seems to have been accidentally or deliberately contaminated shortly after the fall of the meteorite in 1864.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- November 1964
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.146.3648.1157
- Bibcode:
- 1964Sci...146.1157A