Asteroids contain components of life 200 million miles from Earth

It turns out that the bits of cold, dark rock that wander in the vacuum of the universe contain the building blocks of life.

The asteroid known as Ryugu was the target of the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft.

In 2019, he was able to take samples of space rock and return them to Earth. Since then, scientists have analyzed dirt from a rocky 5.4-gram asteroid.

Currently, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan shares the findings of these samples and affirms that they contain the keys to create life.

Experts say these patterns are “the most primitive materials in the solar system that we have studied so far.”

This is because Ryugu itself is thought to be a fragment of a larger carbon-rich asteroid that may have formed from dust and gas early in the solar system.

Amazingly, the group identified more than 20 amino acids from samples brought back to Earth in late 2020.

Amino acids are the starting point for the proteins that organisms produce based on their DNA code.

Hiroshi Naraoka of Kyushu University in Japan, who led the team, said: “The samples contain various probiotic organic compounds, such as protein-producing amino acids, milled oil-like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and various nitrogen compounds. I found that out.”

“These prebiotic organic molecules can spread throughout the solar system as a result of interplanetary dust impacting on Luig’s surface, or as a result of other causes.

What do you mean? Now, it may give us a clue as to how life began on this planet. Basically, the raw material was brought here a long time ago from comets and asteroids.

It also shows that somewhere, extraterrestrial life forms are likely to evolve on other planets.