The Organic Content of the Tagish Lake Meteorite
The Tagish Lake meteorite fell last year on a frozen lake in Canada and may provide the most pristine material of its kind. Analyses have now shown this carbonaceous chondrite to contain a suite of soluble organic compounds (∼100 parts per million) that includes mono- and dicarboxylic acids, dicarbo...
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craaas:10.1126/science.1062614 2024-06-23T07:57:06+00:00 The Organic Content of the Tagish Lake Meteorite Pizzarello, Sandra Huang, Yongsong Becker, Luann Poreda, Robert J. Nieman, Ronald A. Cooper, George Williams, Michael 2001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1062614 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1062614 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 293, issue 5538, page 2236-2239 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2001 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1062614 2024-06-13T04:01:16Z The Tagish Lake meteorite fell last year on a frozen lake in Canada and may provide the most pristine material of its kind. Analyses have now shown this carbonaceous chondrite to contain a suite of soluble organic compounds (∼100 parts per million) that includes mono- and dicarboxylic acids, dicarboximides, pyridine carboxylic acids, a sulfonic acid, and both aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons. The insoluble carbon exhibits exclusive aromatic character, deuterium enrichment, and fullerenes containing “planetary” helium and argon. The findings provide insight into an outcome of early solar chemical evolution that differs from any seen so far in meteorites. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tagish AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Canada Frozen Lake ENVELOPE(76.108,76.108,-69.415,-69.415) Tagish ENVELOPE(-134.272,-134.272,60.313,60.313) Tagish Lake ENVELOPE(-134.233,-134.233,59.717,59.717) Science 293 5538 2236 2239 |
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The Tagish Lake meteorite fell last year on a frozen lake in Canada and may provide the most pristine material of its kind. Analyses have now shown this carbonaceous chondrite to contain a suite of soluble organic compounds (∼100 parts per million) that includes mono- and dicarboxylic acids, dicarboximides, pyridine carboxylic acids, a sulfonic acid, and both aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons. The insoluble carbon exhibits exclusive aromatic character, deuterium enrichment, and fullerenes containing “planetary” helium and argon. The findings provide insight into an outcome of early solar chemical evolution that differs from any seen so far in meteorites. |
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The Organic Content of the Tagish Lake Meteorite |
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The Organic Content of the Tagish Lake Meteorite |
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