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Monday, 24 August 2020

Antarctic meteorite might explain mystery of life's weird asymmetry

Astonishingly old Antarctic space rock could

explain mystery of life's weird asymmetry

By Meghan Bartels, SpaceCom, August 21, 2020

Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA Scientists

Peek at Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks

By Lonnie Shekhtman, NASA’s Goddard Space

Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., August 21, 2020

The paper is:

Daniel P. Glavin Hannah L. McLain Jason P.

Dworkin Eric T. Parker and others, 2020

Abundant extraterrestrial amino acids in the

primitive CM carbonaceous chondrite Asuka

12236 First published: 20 August 2020

Yours,

Paul H.

Mystery of Disappearing Asteroids Solved

Mystery of disappearing asteroids solved.
by University of Hawaii at Manoa's Institute
for Astronomy, Honolulu, February 17, 2016
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/02/mystery-of-disappearing-asteroids-solved
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/disintegrating_asteroids/

A new study finds that most asteroids and
comets are destroyed in a drawn out, long
hot fizzle, much farther from the Sun than
previously thought."

The paper is:

Granvik, M., A. Morbidelli, R. Jedicke, B. Bolin, W. F. Bottke,
E. Beshore, D. Vokrouhlický, M. Delbo, and P/ Michel, 2016.
Super-catastrophic disruption of asteroids at small perihelion
distances. Nature. vol. 530, no. 7590, pp. 303–306
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v530/n7590/full/nature16934.html

Yours,

Paul H.

“Sailing Stones” of Death Valley Mystery Solved

Mystery Solved: “Sailing Stones” of Death Valley
Seen in Action for the First Time (Thin sheets of
ice push rocks across the desert when conditions
are just right. Scripps Institution of Oceanography
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/mystery-solved-sailing-stones-death-valley-seen-action-first-time?hash=3f42fa4a60340630b1fde436c4f177fe

Mystery Of Death Valley's 'Sailing Stones' Has
Finally Been Solved by Ryan Grenoble
The Huffington Post, August 27, 2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/death-valley-sailing-stones-solved_n_5718827.html

Mystery solved: The sailing stones of Death Valley
by Michelle Starr, CNET, August 27, 2014
http://www.cnet.com/news/mystery-solved-the-sailing-stones-of-death-valley/

Finally! Secret of Death Valley’s ‘Sailing Stones’ Is
Solved by Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, Aug. 27, 2014
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/27/secret-behind-death-valleys-sailing-stones-revealed/

The paper is:

Norris, J. D., J. M. Norris, R. D. Lorenz, J. Ray, and
B. Jackson, 2014, Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa,
Death Valley National Park: First Observation of
Rocks in Motion. PLOS ONE. 9(8): e105948.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105948
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105948

Yours,

Paul H.