Sharmila is a Seattle-based science journalist. She found her love for astronomy in Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot and has been hooked ever since. She holds an MA in Journalism from Northeastern University and has been a contributing writer for Astronomy Magazine since 2017. Follow her on Twitter at @skuthunur.
"...The findings collectively show a"good correlation" of organics with areas hosting older impacts, researchers say, showing that asteroid strikes did indeed influence the presence and abundance of organics across billions of years."While the origin of the organics remains poorly understood, we now have good evidence that they formed in Ceres and likely in the presence of water.
My note. Observations show a great deal of catastrophism now for the origin of life via abiogenesis, foundation doctrine for astrobiology. Space.com articles discuss this issue too in recent reports. Same problems for abiogenesis remain as previously discussed. https://forums.space.com/threads/solar-superflares-millions-of-times-stronger-than-anything-today-may-have-sparked-life-on-earth.61536/
Charles Darwin discussed briefly the warm little pond but acknowledges that life today could quickly devour some type of non-living matter attempting to evolve into a single cell or life. I would point out that any early life that evolved from non-living matter would be faced with quick extinction too from the early earth postulated conditions operating in nature. Here is a 1882 letter of Charles Darwin where he hopes abiogenesis will be shown true in science.
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