Nature Communications (Mar 2023)
Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
- Yasuhiro Oba,
- Toshiki Koga,
- Yoshinori Takano,
- Nanako O. Ogawa,
- Naohiko Ohkouchi,
- Kazunori Sasaki,
- Hajime Sato,
- Daniel P. Glavin,
- Jason P. Dworkin,
- Hiroshi Naraoka,
- Shogo Tachibana,
- Hisayoshi Yurimoto,
- Tomoki Nakamura,
- Takaaki Noguchi,
- Ryuji Okazaki,
- Hikaru Yabuta,
- Kanako Sakamoto,
- Toru Yada,
- Masahiro Nishimura,
- Aiko Nakato,
- Akiko Miyazaki,
- Kasumi Yogata,
- Masanao Abe,
- Tatsuaki Okada,
- Tomohiro Usui,
- Makoto Yoshikawa,
- Takanao Saiki,
- Satoshi Tanaka,
- Fuyuto Terui,
- Satoru Nakazawa,
- Sei-ichiro Watanabe,
- Yuichi Tsuda,
- Hayabusa2-initial-analysis SOM team
Affiliations
- Yasuhiro Oba
- Institute of Low Temperature Science (ILTS), Hokkaido University
- Toshiki Koga
- Biogeochemistry Research Center (BGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Natsushima
- Yoshinori Takano
- Biogeochemistry Research Center (BGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Natsushima
- Nanako O. Ogawa
- Biogeochemistry Research Center (BGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Natsushima
- Naohiko Ohkouchi
- Biogeochemistry Research Center (BGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Natsushima
- Kazunori Sasaki
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Keio University, Kakuganji
- Hajime Sato
- Human Metabolome Technologies Inc., Kakuganji
- Daniel P. Glavin
- Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Jason P. Dworkin
- Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Hiroshi Naraoka
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University
- Shogo Tachibana
- UTokyo Organization for Planetary and Space Science (UTOPS), University of Tokyo
- Hisayoshi Yurimoto
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University
- Tomoki Nakamura
- Department of Earth Material Science, Tohoku University
- Takaaki Noguchi
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyoto University
- Ryuji Okazaki
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University
- Hikaru Yabuta
- Department of Earth and Planetary Systems Science, Hiroshima University
- Kanako Sakamoto
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Toru Yada
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Masahiro Nishimura
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Aiko Nakato
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Akiko Miyazaki
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Kasumi Yogata
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Masanao Abe
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Tatsuaki Okada
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Tomohiro Usui
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Makoto Yoshikawa
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Takanao Saiki
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Satoshi Tanaka
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Fuyuto Terui
- Kanagawa Institute of Technology
- Satoru Nakazawa
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Sei-ichiro Watanabe
- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
- Yuichi Tsuda
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Hayabusa2-initial-analysis SOM team
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36904-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Uracil was identified in the sample returned from the asteroid Ryugu. Having been provided to the early Earth as a component in such asteroidal materials, these molecules might have played a role for prebiotic chemical evolution on the early Earth
