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Did comets help life begin on Earth? New simulations challenge the idea
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Did comets help life begin on Earth? New simulations challenge the idea

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A Cambridge-led study suggests comets rarely delivered useful quantities of life’s molecular ingredients to early Earth because impacts destroyed them and surviving material wouldn’t have stayed concentrated at the surface for long.

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