Astrochemical process

Cometary & Meteoritic Chemistry

The record of the early Solar System's chemistry preserved in comets and meteorites — the amino acids in the Murchison meteorite, the ancient inclusions of Allende, and the ices of comets — a frozen archive of the material that built the planets.

Murchison
Allende
Amino-Acid Precursors

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Associated withMurchison
Associated withAllende
Associated withAmino-Acid Precursors

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Cometary & Meteoritic Chemistry

Environments, telescopes & molecules

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Cometary & Meteoritic Chemistry

Environments, telescopes & molecules

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