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Astromaterials Curator Francis McCubbin, NASA Sample Return Capsule Science Lead Scott Sandford, and University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta collect science data shortly after the sample return capsule from NASA 's OSIRIS-REx mission landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range, on September 24, 2023 at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, Utah.
Within two short decades of that first cocktail bar meeting, OSIRIS-REx had successfully returned a 4.5-billion-year-old sample from Bennu and safely delivered it a Utah desert. There, Lauretta and colleagues were eagerly awaiting the pristine sample’s return.
In terms of mass, phosphorus is the fifth most important biologic element, after hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, Lauretta writes in his book. But where terrestrial life got its phosphorus is a mystery, he writes.We can't rule them out just yet, they may have been below our current detection limit, says Lauretta. We also found all four of the nucleobases or the letters of the genetic code used in DNA; that means earth received those compounds from these carbon rich asteroids, he says.
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