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    Hypervelocity Impact Experiments Probe the Origin of Organics on the Dwarf Planet Ceres

    October 18, 2023, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Hypervelocity impact experiments probe the origin of organics on the dwarf planet Ceres
    Side view of the ejecta curtain created during a hypervelocity impact experiment at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range. The experiment was designed to investigate the effects of impacts on Ceres’ organics. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

    One of the most exciting findings from NASA’s Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, hosts complex organics. The discovery of aliphatic molecules, which consist of carbon and hydrogen chains, in conjunction with evidence that Ceres has abundant water ice and may have been an ocean world, means this dwarf planet might have once harbored the main ingredients associated with life as we know it.

    How the aliphatic organics originated on Ceres has been the ...

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