Thread: Natural processes seem to favor amino acid "handedness"
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Old 06-March-2008, 02:03 PM
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He couldn't have been talking about the Martian meteorite, as that didn't land in a farmyard. It landed in Antarctica.
Right, he was referring to the Murchison meteorite which was strewn across pastures. Even still, this finding seems to reinforce what they found 10yrs ago, an excess left handedness in amino acids.
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