News Story: Meteorites Gave Earth Life

Study: Meteorites Gave Earth Life By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Aug. 31, 2004 — Iron meteorites may have been responsible for the evolution of life on Earth, according to NASA funded research. In a study to be published shortly in the journal Astrobiology, University of Arizona's Dante Lauretta, assistant professor of planetary sciences, and doctoral candidate Matthew Pasek, suggest that iron meteorites brought enough phosphorus to Earth to give rise to biomolecules which eventually assembled into living, replicating organisms. REST OF ARTICLE FROM DISCOVERY.COM What kinds of stories could you make from this? Is there some odd or annoying or dangerous or miraculous event or thing or person that exists now or at one time in history that you could tie in to some type of unexpectated arrival from outer space? How would you do it? Hmmm... take a writer like Jules Verne or H.G. Wells or even Mark Twain and imagine that they were personally affected by some sort of "arrival from outer space." What would you include in that story? Or perhaps you discover something in your own back yard that came from outer space. What would it be and what happens next?