Meteorite That Crashed Into New Jersey Home Contains Rare Ingredients of Life

A meteorite crashed into a New Jersey home, and analysis of the space rock traces its origin to a primitive asteroid from the early solar system. io9 reports the meteorite contains rare ingredients of life — the organic compounds that form the building blocks of living things.

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