ALMA Confirms Comets Forge Organic Molecules in Their Dusty Atmospheres

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Nature 512, 234–235 (21 August 2014)
doi:10.1038/512234d

Published online 20 August 2014

Comets contain some of the oldest materials in the Solar System. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, Martin Cordiner of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues made detailed observations

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