15. The Cosmic Soup Recipe
Found Year: 2005
It was found by Spitzer.
Place: Not specified
When NASA’s Deep Impact probe purposefully crashed with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, it released a shower of debris that contained the elements of the solar system’s fundamental “soup.” Using information from Deep Impact and photos from Spitzer, astronomers examined that particular soup and began to identify the components that ultimately gave rise to planets, comets, and other bodies in our solar system.
The Cosmological Soup Recipe @nasa/JPL-Caltech/Pinterest
Sand or silicates were among the many components that were detected in that particular comet dust that were very well comet ingredients. However, there were additional parts that were not expected, such clay, carbonates (found in seashells), iron-containing compounds, and aromatic hydrocarbons, which are common and everyday substances on Earth.
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