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Science 5 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5774, pp. 706 - 707
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125967
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
The Primordial Porridge

Bernard Marty

Interplanetary dust particles contain organic matter thought to have formed either before our solar system or early in its history. Similar matter appears in the oldest meteorites.

The author is at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, 54501 France. E-mail: bmarty{at}crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr

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