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• Wow, NASA astronauts studied it. (Score:1)

  by Anonymous Coward writes:

  Then they scratched their heads and said “why the hell do they have us studying meteorites? We should be training for our next launch.”

  • Re: (Score:2)

    by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) writes:

    Then they scratched their heads and said “why the hell do they have us studying meteorites? We should be training for our next launch.”

    To be fair, most NASA astronauts have at least one PhD in something or another. It’s not impossible that some of those degrees are in astrobiology or another field appropriate for studying the space rock.
• Astronauts? or astrobiologists? (Score:5, Funny)

  by XXongo ( 3986865 ) writes: on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:14PM (#60437103) Homepage

  “Now, NASA astronauts have had a chance to study a piece of that meteorite… Inside the meteorite, astrobiologists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center found …”

  I think whoever wrote that press release got confused. Astronaut and astrobiologist are both polysyllabic words starting with a, but they are not the same thing.

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes:

    During Covid Times, many of us have to double up on duties.
• Heat and water…. (Score:2)

  by Rockoon ( 1252108 ) writes:

  They believe Asuka 12236 was exposed to very little heat or water

  If its not a ball of almost entirely hydrogen, then it came from a star, and not only a star, but one that exploded…

  Apparently they theorize this came from a cold supernova?

  • Re: (Score:3)

    by msauve ( 701917 ) writes:

    …and, it came through the atmosphere and was found sitting on frozen water.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes:

    Apparently they theorize this came from a cold supernova?

    Yes, the University of Utah just set one off in their lab the other day. Dr. Freeze is interested in the technology.
• • Space rock? Space museum? Space cash? (Score:2)

    by DontBeAMoran ( 4843879 ) writes:

    Here’s one more [squarespace-cdn.com].
• I’ll wait (Score:2)

  by AndyKron ( 937105 ) writes:

  More questions than answers so far
• He can pitch well (Score:1)

  by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes:

  Asuka 12236 contains more left-handed versions of some amino acids. While there are right-handed and left-handed versions of each amino acid, life as we know it uses only left-handed amino acids to build proteins.

  God’s a lefty, I knew it!

  • Re: He can pitch well (Score:3)

    by Nidi62 ( 1525137 ) writes:

    Well, its golf ball sized and it was obviously left here. So that means the aliens consider earth to be a hazard that you would rather just take the 1 stroke penalty and get a drop over trying to go in and play the ball where it lies.
• • Re: (Score:2)

    by DontBeAMoran ( 4843879 ) writes:

    If you care and worry about taxpayer money, never look up how much is wasted by the military. Everything else is pocket change by comparison.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by youngone ( 975102 ) writes:

      Anonymous Coward may well be one of those Christians who have decided the bible is the last word on all matters of science and history, therefore anyone who spends time asking the wrong questions, or, even worse, getting the wrong answers needs to stop.
• Not the only meteorite … (Score:3)

  by kbahey ( 102895 ) writes: on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:38PM (#60437633) Homepage

  This is not the only meteorite that has organic compounds similar to those found in living organisms.

  The Murchison meteorite [wikipedia.org] had amino acids and nucleaobases too.

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