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Nature 416, 401-403 (28 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416401a;

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Racemic amino acids from the ultraviolet photolysis of interstellar ice analogues

The delivery of extraterrestrial organic molecules to Earth by meteorites may have been important for the origin and early evolution of life. Indigenous amino acids have been found in meteorites—over 70 in the Murchison meteorite alone.

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