{"id":39465,"date":"2013-06-04T20:47:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=36450"},"modified":"2013-06-04T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T00:47:53","slug":"life-producing-phosphorus-was-brought-to-the-earth-by-meteorites-research-finds-raising-interesting-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/life-producing-phosphorus-was-brought-to-the-earth-by-meteorites-research-finds-raising-interesting-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-Producing Phosphorus Was Brought To The Earth By Meteorites, Research Finds — Raising Interesting Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"
Phosphorus — an element essential to life as we know it — is only present on the surface of the Earth as a result of being brought here by meteorites, according to new research. The finding doesn’t offer any answers with regards to the question of whether or not life originated on the Earth, or was brought here by meteorites, but it does make it clear that without meteorites that life as we know it couldn’t live here.<\/p>\n