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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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Pizzarello, Sandra, Huang, Yongsong, Becker, Luann, Poreda, Robert J., Nieman, Ronald A., Cooper, George, Williams, Michael
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2001
Subjects:
Canada
Frozen Lake
Tagish
Tagish Lake
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1062614
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1062614

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