A Hypothesis to Explain the Presence of Amino Acids in the Tagish Lake Meteorite

· by · in , , ,

Bassez M. P. *

80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6035]

abstract (PDF)

“The Tagish Lake meteorite contains organic matter abiotically synthesized. An explanation is proposed on the basis of thermodynamic calculations and the presence of minerals. ”

Related posts (automatically generated):

  1. Evidence for sodium-rich alkaline water in the Tagish Lake parent body and implications for amino acid synthesis and racemizationOPEN ACCESS 
  2. Methodologies for Analyzing Soluble Organic Compounds in Extraterrestrial Samples: Amino Acids, Amines, Monocarboxylic Acids, Aldehydes, and KetonesOPEN ACCESS 
  3. A new family of extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteoriteOPEN ACCESS 
  4. New insights into the heterogeneity of the Tagish Lake meteorite: Soluble organic compositions of variously altered specimens
  5. Geoelectrochemistry-driven alteration of amino acids to derivative organics in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodiesOPEN ACCESS 
  6. Synthesis of Amino Acids from Aldehydes and Ammonia: Implications for Organic Reactions in Carbonaceous Chondrite Parent BodiesOPEN ACCESS 
  7. Analysis of amino acids, hydroxy acids, and amines in CR chondritesOPEN ACCESS 
  8. Low total abundances and a predominance of n-ω-amino acids in enstatite chondrites: Implications for thermal stability of amino acids in the inner solar system
  9. Soluble organic compounds in the Tagish Lake meteorite
  10. Tagish Lake is Still the Only Possible Meteorite Sample from D-Type Asteroids
Tags: , , ,