Evidence for Extraterrestrial Amino-acids and Hydrocarbons in the Murchison Meteorite
@article{Kvenvolden1970EvidenceFE,
title={Evidence for Extraterrestrial Amino-acids and Hydrocarbons in the Murchison Meteorite},
author={K. Kvenvolden and James G. Lawless and K. Pering and E. Peterson and J. Flores and C. Ponnamperuma and I. Kaplan and C. Moore},
journal={Nature},
year={1970},
volume={228},
pages={923-926}
}Organic molecules found in meteorites seem to have been formed before the meteorites reached Earth.