Probably the same guy contaminating this sample worked in the clean-room with JWST and dropped those bolts in the telescope. Just kidding of course, but humans make mistakes. Even at the top of their respective fields of work.
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The effort to prevent this was pretty wild. At least there’s always knowledge to gain, even among our failures.
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So is the detection of Uracil on the ryugu sample was also contaminated?
Published on nature last year (March 2023)
Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
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Probably the same guy contaminating this sample worked in the clean-room with JWST and dropped those bolts in the telescope. Just kidding of course, but humans make mistakes. Even at the top of their respective fields of work.
The effort to prevent this was pretty wild. At least there’s always knowledge to gain, even among our failures.
So is the detection of Uracil on the ryugu sample was also contaminated?
Published on nature last year (March 2023)
Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36904-3