'Fireball' meteorite that crashed in Michigan holds extraterrestrial organic compounds

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A fireball meteor lit up midwestern skies on Jan. 16, 2018, then landed on a frozen Michigan lake. Analysis of the space rock revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

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An interesting report linking *organic compounds* in the meteorite found to the origin of life on Earth. The report says, "The transformation from extraterrestrial organic compounds into the first microbial life on Earth is "a big step" that is still shrouded in mystery, but evidence suggests that organics are common in meteorites — even in thermally metamorphosed meteorites such as the one that landed in Michigan, he added. Meteor bombardment was also more frequent for a young Earth than it is today, "so we are pretty certain that the input from meteorites into the organic inventory on Earth was important," for seeding life, Heck said."

This meteorite was apparently recovered fairly quickly after the fall to Earth so abiogenesis did not have enough time to convert the organic compounds in the meteorite, into microbial life on Earth today - it seems. The meteorite has a CRE age ~ 12 million years old too.