{"id":177341,"date":"2023-12-03T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/meteorites-likely-source-of-nitrogen-for-early-earth-ryugu-samples-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-12-03T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:23:44","slug":"meteorites-likely-source-of-nitrogen-for-early-earth-ryugu-samples-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/meteorites-likely-source-of-nitrogen-for-early-earth-ryugu-samples-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Meteorites likely source of nitrogen for early Earth, Ryugu samples study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteorites-likely-source-of-nitrogen-for-early-earth-ryugu-samples-study-finds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Micrometeorites originating from icy celestial bodies in the outer solar system may be responsible for transporting nitrogen to the near-Earth region in the early days of our solar system. That discovery was published in <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i> by an international team of researchers, including University of Hawai\u2019i at M\u0101noa scientists, led by Kyoto University.<\/p>\n<p>Nitrogen compounds, such as ammonium salts, are abundant in material born in regions far from the sun, but evidence of their transport to Earth\u2019s orbital region had been poorly understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur recent findings suggest the possibility that a greater amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nitrogen+compounds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nitrogen compounds<\/a> than previously recognized was transported near Earth, potentially serving as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/building+blocks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">building blocks<\/a> for life on our planet,\u201d says Hope Ishii, study co-author and affiliate faculty at the Hawai\u2019i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in the UH M\u0101noa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micrometeorites originating from icy celestial bodies in the outer solar system may be responsible for transporting nitrogen to the near-Earth region in the early days of our solar system. That discovery was published in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, including University of Hawai\u2019i at M\u0101noa scientists, led by Kyoto University. Nitrogen compounds, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}