Neil deGrasse Tyson

We're kind of interested in the organics, not in the minerals.

And I know geologists love them some minerals, but at the end of the day, the headline is not what kind of new rock you found.

It's what kind of organics might be there.

So how close were you to that analysis?

Or was that a whole other group?

I've got to correct you on something.

You called Ceres an asteroid, but it got promoted to dwarf planet.

Just to remind people, it's the only asteroid that's large enough for its gravity to have shaped it into a sphere.

And that's a sufficient qualifications to be a dwarf planet just like Pluto.

Thank you, Chuck, for that telegram.

So what do we know?

I seem to remember a research paper, or it might have just been a review in the New York Times, that talked about, was it amino acids that were found in the rock?

Thank you, Chuck, for that scientific analysis.

I forgot that tryptophan is an amino acid.

I'd forgotten that.

And the famous one from Jurassic Park is, of course, what is it, lysine.

Lysine.

Lysine, yeah.

Wanted to make sure that the dinosaurs were dependent on that.

And therefore, they would die had they escaped.