MSNBC: A scientific gold mine from space

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a search for new clues about the origin of life, researchers worldwide are analyzing bits of a bus-sized meteorite that blazed to Earth last January in a spectacular fireball, giving science the most pristine primordial matter ever recovered.

In a search for new clues about the origin of life, researchers worldwide are analyzing bits of a bus-sized meteorite that blazed to Earth last January in a spectacular fireball, giving science the most pristine primordial matter ever recovered.

The meteorite, estimated to weigh about 220 tons when it smashed into the atmosphere, shattered before it hit the ground and sprayed bits of space rock over a frozen lake in Canada’s British Columbia.

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/475669.asp

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["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]
 
Yeah..if it's going to do that..lemme get out first...
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I can be satisfied in the knowledge that no interstellar object has hit the Australian continent since Europeans settled here. (Or, at least, nothing that I've heard of!)
 
That's a pretty big chunk of rock..

I wonder if they'll find anything interesting.

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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. ~ Rev. 21:4
 
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