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Bird wrote (edited )

If I've read this correctly, which with how little sleep I've gotten it's possible I haven't this isn't some huge news. While it does give us neat insight on the formation of this astroid, it doesn't really change all that much as far as theories of how earth was formed, except maybe reinforcing some hypotheses and maybe giving some information on the formation of the solar system. Organic compounds have been found in space many times, they aren't caused by life but can be used by life as we know it. And possibly I'm just jaded but I don't see how water ice on an asteroid would be that unusual seeing as H2O is one of the most common molecules out there in the observable universe.

Okay reading the paper released and not the clickbaity article it's a little more interesting but not some reality changing discovery.

Link to the paper for the interested: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84517-x?

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