LUCKY STRIKE.

METEORITE analysis; RAIN forests; MICROORGANISMS; BASE pairs; RIBOSE

The article offers information on unusual meteorite crashed in a Costa Rican rainforest. Topics include examines the perennial criticism of the Murchison finds by ensuring the molecules discovered inside were native, and not contamination from Earth's own microbes; and reports that Murchison also contained nucleobases, the building blocks of genetic molecules such as RNA, and in November 2019, researchers found a major component of RNA's backbone, the sugar molecule ribose.