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by MockObject 2305 days ago
They believe that this meteorite is native to our solar system, so it's not a candidate for panspermia from anywhere interesting.
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That’s probably what should interest us the most - the article says the protein arrangement is previously unknown but functional (?).
You don't think it would be interesting to discover non-Earth proteins within our solar system? At the very least, this finding would be a pretty good indicator that proteins occur naturally outside of our solar system as well.
Life arising anywhere other than earth would be a big deal.