Sentences with phrase «seeded early earth»

Asteroids like Bennu may have seeded the early Earth with organic molecules.

Jupiter may have seeded early Earth with icy materials, and later shielded us from devastating comet collisions, yet Jupiter itself is largely a cipher.

Scientists have speculated that a rain of carbonaceous chondrites may have seeded early Earth with the raw material for biology here.

«Carbon - rich asteroids may have seeded the early Earth with the fundamental molecules that led to DNA, proteins and other critical biomolecules,» Lauretta says.

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This concern found expression in the late Old Testament books of Ruth and Jonah, though there were seeds of it in Israel's earliest traditions, such as the divine words spoken to Abraham, «By you all the families of the earth will bless themselves».

Other asteroids like Bennu may have seeded the early, prebiotic Earth with this material, contributing to the primordial soup from which life eventually emerged.

It is possible that volcanoes, which were much more active early in Earth's history, seeded our planet with life's ingredients.

Alexander Hubbard at the American Museum of Natural History in New York suggests that if the sun had an early outburst — similar to the one that the infant star FU Orionis had starting in 1936 — it would have partially melted the orbiting dust, making it sticky enough to become the seeds of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars (Astrophysical Journal Letters, doi.org/b6sc).

The carbon atoms that are essential to life on Earth were forged in the nuclear furnaces of stars that lived and died in an earlier epoch of the Universe, and which seeded the clouds out of which our own Sun and the Solar System were formed.

Suffice to say that this is the home world of the Engineers, the towering race that seeded Earth with human beings millions of years earlier, and toward which the survivors of Prometheus — Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and the android David (who like Walter, the subsequent model, is also played by Fassbender)-- had charted their course at the end of the previous film.

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