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Posted on February 12, 2021October 26, 2023

New Insights Into How Earth Got Its Nitrogen

Scientists have long held that many of the important compounds and elements that make life possible on Earth arrived here after the planet was formed and was orbiting the sun.  These molecules came via meteorites and comets, it was thought,  from the colder regions beyond Jupiter. But in a challenge to that long-accepted view, a …

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Posted on January 28, 2019March 18, 2019

The Moon-Forming Impact And Its Gifts

    The question of how life-essential elements such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur came to our planet has been long debated and is a clearly important and slippery scientific subject. Did these volatile elements accrete onto the proto-Earth from the sun's planetary disk as the planet was being formed?  Did they arrive substantially later …

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