Extraterrestrial Amino Acids - CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites rockinaboxtethys Above: Typical Otodus Small

Above: Typical Otodus Small

and in the "Fat Man" atomic bomb used over Nagasaki

and Michael Collins on their journey from Earth to the Moon and back

Above: Large and Medium Teeth showing a range of shapes and colors

Extraterrestrial Amino Acids - CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites rockinaboxtethys Above: Typical Otodus SmallAbove: The front of the specimen card Each year nearly 40,000,000 kilograms (88. 1 million pounds) of meteoritic material rains down on the Earth from outer space. Less than 1% of these falls holds traces of organic compounds, and within this tiny subset scientists sometimes come across even rarer material: amino acids. Above: Working on samples of the Murchison meteorite. Crafted in our workshop, this specimen is composed of two special carbonaceous