Meager1
Dagobah Resident
I thought this was interesting.
"The fact that a large suite of related sugar derivatives, sugar decomposition products, and the smallest sugar, are present in the Murchison and Murray carbonaceous meteorites makes it likely that more sugars, at one time, were also present.
Other bodies (comets or asteroids), perhaps in less advanced stages of aqueous
alteration or oxidation, may have delivered intact sugars or formaldehyde to planets in the early solar System.
However dihydroxyacetone in the presence of minerals is capable of producing higher sugars in aqueous solution. As a model of prebiotic chemistry, the finding of these compounds in some of the oldest objects in the Solar System suggests that polyhdroxylated compounds were, at the very least, available for incorporation into the first living organisms. "
http://www.archive.org/stream/nasa_techdoc_20020043257/20020043257#page/n0/mode/2up
"The fact that a large suite of related sugar derivatives, sugar decomposition products, and the smallest sugar, are present in the Murchison and Murray carbonaceous meteorites makes it likely that more sugars, at one time, were also present.
Other bodies (comets or asteroids), perhaps in less advanced stages of aqueous
alteration or oxidation, may have delivered intact sugars or formaldehyde to planets in the early solar System.
However dihydroxyacetone in the presence of minerals is capable of producing higher sugars in aqueous solution. As a model of prebiotic chemistry, the finding of these compounds in some of the oldest objects in the Solar System suggests that polyhdroxylated compounds were, at the very least, available for incorporation into the first living organisms. "
http://www.archive.org/stream/nasa_techdoc_20020043257/20020043257#page/n0/mode/2up
