First Time, Scientists Find Water and Organic Material in Asteroids

KOMPAS.com- For the first time, scientists were surprised to find water and organic matter in asteroid. This discovery provides a new understanding of how the Earth formed.

Scientists find organic material in samples from asteroid Itokawa during the first Hayabusa mission by the Aerospace Exploration Agency. Japan ( JAXA) In 2010.

Reporting from The Independent, Thursday (11/3/2021), a sample of a rock from the asteroid was analyzed, and for the first time the material contained in this asteroid material surprised scientists.

In the sample there was water and organic matter that did not come from an alien world, but from the asteroid itself.

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Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, English, states that asteroids have evolved over billions of years to include liquid and organic matter in the same way as Earth.

Asteroid it goes through extreme heat, dehydrates and breaks, but manages to reshape and re-hydrate using the material it extracted.

The study suggests that the S-type asteroid, which is the most common to come to Earth, could contain a crude component of life.

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The results of this analysis could rewrite our knowledge of the history of life on Earth, which previously focused on carbon-rich C-type asteroids.

“The Hayabusa mission is a robotic spacecraft developed by JAXA to return samples from a small, near-Earth asteroid called Itokawa, for detailed analysis in the Earth laboratory,” said Dr Queenie Chan of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway.

Dr Chan added that after being studied in detail by an international team of scientists, an analysis of a sample of an asteroid, dubbed the Amazon, had preserved primitive organic matter. The material is not processed by heating it within a 10 micron distance.

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