Harold Connolly Jr.

And it's the whole suite of these evaporite minerals, not just the phosphorus.

The phosphorus is critical, though, but it's not just that.

It's the whole suite of them that we, as life, have to have in different ways and different proportions.

Now, I'm not a biologist, so keep that in mind.

Well, I mean, you know, they're saying better than I. You know, we are stardust.

We are made up of stardust, right?

And stardust means dust that literally comes from stars, either evolving stars or dying stars that eject material.

And in that ejection, that gas that comes out, like the fluid with minerals condensing,

these new minerals condense out of the gas.

And these are from stars that are not part of our... were not part of our solar system and seeded what was there in the beginning before our solar system formed, which was a molecular cloud.

And there are different kinds of...

Pretty solid grains.

Diamonds are one of them.

We had downstairs in the museum's meteorite hall.

There are diamonds in a little capsule in there, which is fantastic.

It looks like a grayish mixture inside of the little vial.

There are silicon carbide grains.

But then there are what we call corundum or little teeny tiny.

And we're talking really so small, smaller than what we can see, certainly with the naked eye, nanometer size.

Yeah, and then there are silicates.