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Life Building Blocks Found on Ceres

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I thought we already new organic compounds existed in the ice rocks.
 
ModerateGOP said:
yes but not on Ceres
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Well, it is an ice rock.

Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and icy mantle, and may have a remnant internal ocean of liquid water under the layer of ice.[20][21] The surface is probably a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clay. In January 2014, emissions of water vapor were detected from several regions of Ceres.[22] This was unexpected, because large bodies in the asteroid belt typically do not emit vapor, a hallmark of comets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)
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This will show that the life building blocks will be very common in the universe. It remains to be seen on how often having the right chemistry available actually gets turned into life though.
 
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