Burning meteorites from the outer solar system triggered life on Earth 4.6 billion years ago.

Huge fireballs from outer parts of the world solar system A new study reveals that life brought the building blocks to Earth 4.6 billion years ago.

scientists Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Imperial College London He found that these ancient meteorites contained carbonaceous chondrite composed of potassium and zinc.

Potassium helps produce a cell’s fluids, while zinc is vital in building DNA.

The team found that these space rocks make up ten percent of the space rocks that hit the planet at the time of its birth.

The other 90 percent came from carbonless (NC) material of the inner solar system.

Earth’s life was triggered by fireballs colliding with the newborn planet 4.6 billion years ago.

“Our work complements and validates each other’s results in many ways,” lead author of the study, Dr Nicole Nie, told SWS.

‘Among the moderately volatile elements, potassium is the least volatile while zinc is one of the most volatile.’

Meteorites provided 20 percent of Earth’s potassium and half of its zinc.

Both are considered volatile substances, which are elements or compounds that transform from solid or liquid state to vapor at relatively low temperatures.

Senior author Professor Mark Rehkämper, from Imperial College London’s Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, said in a statement: Declaration: ‘Our data shows that about half of Earth’s zinc inventory is carried by material from the outer Solar System beyond the orbit of Jupiter.

According to current models of early Solar System development, this was completely unexpected.

Previous research suggested that the Earth was composed almost exclusively of inner Solar System material, which researchers concluded was the dominant source of Earth’s volatile chemicals.

However, the new study provides the first evidence that Earth is partially formed from carbonaceous meteorites from asteroids in the outer main belt.

“This contribution of outer Solar System material played a vital role in establishing Earth’s inventory of volatile chemicals,” said Rehkämper.

“Without the contribution of outer Solar System material, Earth would appear to have much less volatile matter than we know today – making it drier and potentially incapable of sustaining life.”

The team analyzed 18 meteorites,11 of them traveled from the inner region and the rest from the outer regions.

Meteorites contained potassium and zinc and came from the outer regions of the solar system.

And then they measured the relative abundances of five different forms—or isotopes—of zinc.

They then compared each isotopic fingerprint with Earth samples to estimate how much these materials contributed to the Earth’s zinc inventory, and showed that Earth only got ten percent of its mass from carbonaceous bodies.

The researchers found that material with high concentrations of zinc and other volatile compounds may also be relatively abundant in water, providing clues about the origin of Earth’s water.