Meteorite 'could have carried nitrogen to Earth'

[HeyItsZeus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12597564

[Autumnlicious]

In early solar system formation, technically everything was ramming into each other and colliding.

All the planets were bombarded violently for quite a long time after their formation and cooling - a casual look at Mars during the Hesperian and Noachian eras tells that.

Certainly, comets and other large bodies collided into planetoids - were someone to say the opposite, I would be very surprised.

[Rhizomorph13]

Well nitrogen probably came from the gases on the ships laden with atomic bombs that Galactic Overlord Xenu sent into our volcanos. They spread thetans all over our planet which brought sentience to us! That and platapi. Do you have YOUR E-meter?

[Anomalocaris]

The earth probably started with a large initial inventory of nitorgen just like the asteroids and meterites since nitrogen appears to have been a major constituent of the solar nebula from which both the planets and asteroids formed. For the discovery that meteorites might have brough some nitrogen to earth to have any meaning, there must be some background about either:

1. The initial inventory of nitorgen on earth is somehow lost or sequestered so it was not available for certain note worthy purpose in some theory, and asteroid nitrogen addresses this thorny shortage to make the theory viable again.

2. Although the initial inventory of nitrogen on earth was available, the conditions on earth was not suitable for certain processes involving nitrogen whose end product was subsequently observed, and meteroite provides suitable conditions to enable these processes to occur and the end product delivered to earth.

[Minimalist]

In early solar system formation, technically everything was ramming into each other and colliding.

Yeah...kind of puts the lie to the creationist rant about how fucking "perfect" creation was when you look at the impact craters on the moon. God obviously didn't know jackshit about orbits.