Scientists found an asteroid that is closer to the sun than others

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 Joel Kontinen

 

No asteroid has even been discovered this close to the sun. However, now astronomers have found an asteroid that gets to within 20 million kilometres of it. 

They have also found two asteroids as part of a hunt for rocks that are closer to the sun than Earth and may sometime hit the Earth

Source:

Crane, Leah. 2022. Astronomers found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other. New Scientist 5 October. 

Evolutionist think that they might have found proteins on meteorites

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Joel Kontinen

Some people think that proteins are carried to us on meteorites. This is a way called panspermia, which is a bit more complicated version of how life arose than by natural selection.

However even then the first life should be made by a Creator.

This is what New Scientist says about space rocks:

“A team of researchers claim to have found a protein inside a meteorite. It would be the first protein ever discovered from beyond Earth, though not an indication of alien life – and other scientists are sceptical the analysis really found anything at all.”

“iWe know that amino acids, which are organic compounds that act as the building blocks of life, can form on meteors and other space rocks. But the extent of prebiotic chemistry beyond Earth is still unknown, and how that chemistry turns into life is even more mysterious.”

“Julie McGeoch, also at Harvard University, and her colleagues analysed a pristine sample of a meteorite that was found in Algeria in 1990. First, they used a series of small, carefully sanitised drills – similar to dentistry ones – to collect material from deep inside the meteorite.”

More scientist, such as Lee Cronin, are of the opinion that these space rocks do not come from outer space.

Source:

Crane, Leah. 2020. Have we really found an alien protein inside a meteorite? New Scientist 3 March.