Harold Connolly Jr.

Fluid moved through that asteroid four and a half billion years ago because the asteroid became active.

When the asteroid created rock in the earliest time period, it created ices, not just water ice, but ammonia, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc.

And then the asteroid internally began to heat up and you have fluid moving through.

Now, why is that any relevance whatsoever to prebiotic compound?

Because prebiotic compounds...

may very well have formed in that aqueous or water-rich environment.

The evaporite minerals that we talked about are the late stage product of the fluid that moved through, that formed other minerals first, and they're the very last stage.

Now, if you're an organic chemist

and you want to get organics to come out of a solution, one of the time classic methods of doing that in a laboratory is you salt the solution, and the organics go with the evaporated minerals or the salt when you evaporate the fluid.

We're right.

I'm sorry.

You're right.

It's a dwarf planet.

I'm sorry.

I'm behind 30 years, right?

We've found a lot in the rock, and we're finding more.

And they also...

Found a lot of organic compounds, because we're talking about organic compounds and the minerals associated with them in the Rugu sample.

The difference is that in Hayabusa 2, which was a Jackson mission to asteroid Rugu that brought back sample, they brought back 5.2 gram.

So they have a lot less.