Found traces of water and organic materials on an asteroid. The discovery would confirm the hypothesis of "panspermia" and that is that asteroids and comets would bring to Earth, some ...

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sul nostro pianeta è solitamente associato a morte, distruzione ed estinzioni di massa. The impact of an asteroid on Earth is usually associated with death, destruction and mass extinctions. The results of a recent research published in the latest issue of the journal Nature, however, could change this picture of the universe and introduce holliwoodiana asteroids in a much better light. Confirming the hypothesis of the origin of life on Earth.
Josh Emery University of Tennessee and Andrew Rivkin Johns Hopkins University have indeed revealed the presence of water and organic matter sull'asteroide 24 Themis, a small rocky planet about 200 km in diameter that lies between Mars and Jupiter. According to scientists, this discovery lends support to the effect that their asteroids, comets but also falling on our planet, led the first water and the first organic substances necessary to trigger the complex mechanisms of formation of life.
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