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The current theory is that the organic material actually originated on the asteroids themselves - on a class known as "CM2 Meteorites". (http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/dna-meteorit... - last couple of paragraphs)

Also according to that article, we've successfully reproduced the process of creating organic matter from inorganic matter.



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