Close encounters

• Autores: Leonie Mueck
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2939, 2013, págs. 42-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Mueck talks about the analysis of the Murchison meteorite material. Similar findings have been made in other meteorites. That is significant because these meteorites are thought to have a primitive chemical composition similar to that of the material that went into making the solar system. Meteorites are like messengers from the molecular cloud in which the solar system formed. It is only with a new generation of powerful infrared and radio telescopes that people have begun to peer into these molecular clouds in any detail. Such telescopes can measure the low-energy electromagnetic waves given out by molecules as they rotate in a gas cloud.