Tiny meteorites from the icy outer reaches of the Solar System might be the reason Nitrogen ended up near Earth. Yes, we are talking about the early days of our solar system. A team of scientists from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa along with Kyoto University and others from around the globe recently published their discovery in Nature Astronomy. Potential Building Blocks of Life Hitched a Ride Near Earth Nitrogen compounds, like ammonium salts, are common in materials originating far from the sun. But we never really figured out…

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