They find biological molecules on the asteroid Bennu.

On December 2, NASA published a statement under the title Sugars, gum and star dust found in samples from the asteroid Bennu, to remind you of that asteroid they sent a ship, the Osiris-REx, as the mission was called, to bring samples from the surface of that asteroid, and when it arrived on Earth it took them months to remove the screws in order to open the casing where the samples were. They had two screws stuck, but in the end they got it and they are analyzing and they are managing to discover amazing things, literally.

What exactly has been discovered? Well, the basic components of biological molecules, the complete package to build life has been found on Bennu and on an asteroid and on an asteroid where clays and materials that had formed in the presence of liquid water had also been previously found.

How is this possible? That an asteroid has liquid water, because it never had it, because this asteroid tells us a very sad story, this asteroid Bennu, are the remains of a small planetoid, or planet that would have water on the surface or could be of this type, like the moon Europa or Enceladus, water, with an ocean of water under an icy crust. Bennu is estimated to be about 15 million years old. approximately, according to the data that I have consulted, therefore, that planet or protoplanet, protoplanet would be Europa-type objects, Ceres-type objects, already spherical objects with a certain size and where the materials begin to be differentiated by their density, they begin to have a core, they begin to have a mantle, they begin to have a crust and in these cases even an ocean under an icy crust.

It could be that Bennu were the remains of a real planet with water on the surface, perhaps, but it would be rarer, you can't say no, but it would be rarer because these types of Luna Europa must have been very abundant when the solar system was formed, there must have been many of these worlds because there was an abundance of water and the sun was not as hot as it is today, so worlds with an icy crust must have been abundant and Bennu seems to be the remains of a world of that type that had an ocean under the surface and had all the elements. so that life could be built.

What happened to him? must have crashed into another world and disintegrated, we still do not know which Bennu belongs to the family of a series of asteroids, but we would have to follow the trail to try to construct the past history of those remains, by the way, we must recognize the author because, well, the statement is from NASA, but the achievement was achieved by Japanese scientists led by Yosigiro Furukua from the University of Tojoko, they were the ones who analyzed the virgin samples of this asteroid Bennu and found Ribose, a key element to build RNA, which is the essence of genetics.

And for the first time in an extraterrestrial sample they found glucose, glucose is a sugar and it is one of the main sources of energy for life, glucose is the main sugar produced by plants and other photosynthetic organisms such as algae and cyanobacteria during photosynthesis, they use the energy of the sun to produce glucose, because then it is the fuel they use to live and even we in the human body produce glucose.

This finding gives us the entire sum of previous detections such as amino acids, nucleobases, phosphates, etc., and completes the basic kit of blocks to build RNA, life as we know it, the question is if they are the remains of a planetesimal or a protoplanet or a planet, if they are the remains of an object that had liquid water, whether under an icy surface or on the surface, if they are the remains of that, where there was an ocean and where there were all those essential elements for the emergence of life. life, did life ever arise? In that world of which we only have remains called Bennu and some other asteroid from that family, life could have arisen there.

And if life emerged relatively quickly on that world we don't know how long it existed, but if the asteroid is estimated to be 15 million years old, it may have survived long enough, life may have emerged.

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