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1. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

   Cometary Glycolaldehyde as a Source of pre-RNA Molecules

   Zellner, McCaffrey and Butler · Astrobiology · 2020

   The paper argues from impact experiments and extrapolation that comets could have delivered large amounts of glycolaldehyde, a sugar precursor, to the early Earth as starting material for pre-RNA and amino acid chemistry.

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   1. UncheckedLab impact experiments found glycolaldehyde, alone or mixed with montmorillonite clays, survived impact pressures from 4.5 to 25 GPa.“Impact experiments conducted at the Experimental Impact Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center have shown that samples of GLA and GLA mixed with montmorillonite clays can survive impact delivery in the pressure range of 4.5 GPa to 25 GPa.”
   2. UncheckedLab impact experiments, scaled up to comet amounts, suggest up to 10^23 kg of comet glycolaldehyde could have survived impact delivery to early planets.“Extrapolated to amounts of GLA observed on individual comets and assuming a monotonic impact rate in the first billion years of solar system history, these experimental results show that up to 10^23 kg of cometary GLA could have survived impact delivery, with substantial amounts of threose, erythro…”
   3. UncheckedThe paper states that comets delivering glycolaldehyde would have supplied starting material for making ribose and amino acids, whatever the early impact rate.“Importantly, independent of the profile of the impact flux in the early solar system, comet delivery of GLA would have provided (and may continue to provide) a reservoir of starting material for the formose reaction (to form ribose) and the Strecker reaction (to form amino acids).”