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Discharge experiments produce amino acid distributions that are similar to distributions observed in carbonaceous meteorites (Oró, 1990). A recent work (Desch and Cuzzi, 2000) points out to the presence of lightning in the Solar Nebula. Magnetic measurements of chondrules reveal extraordinary magnetic acquisitions (Wasilewski and Dickinson, 2000) that can be explained simply by a presence of magnetic fields generated by lightning discharge (Wasilewski and Kletetschka, 1999). Thus we speculate that lightning discharge may be responsible for the origin of amino acid compounds in carbonaceous meteorites.
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Kletetschka, G. (2001). Electric Discharge in Carbonaceous Meteorites?. In: Chela-Flores, J., Owen, T., Raulin, F. (eds) First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1017-7_29
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