Also organic molecules in comet

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7961

http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=597

 

So I'm starting to wonder from all the places we looked for (if I'm correct) then it was only the moon that didn't have organic molecules (and that is probably because we didn't look good enough.)

 

Aren't we getting in a situation that we will assume that there are organic molecules everywhere. (almost hard to find a place without some)

Maybe in a few decates we will find out that there are all kind of small lifeforms everywhere.

Napthalene has been found in lunar soils returned during the Apollo progam. the presumed source of this material is impacting carbonaceous chondrites.

Some biology text books define all carbon compounds as organic.

lots of chemisty books deine all carbon compounds as organic as well.

basic experiments have shown that the molecular precursors to life can be formed by simply putting the corresponding elements in a solution and sparking an electric current through them. this experiment was done to show that with the aid of a little lightning the building blocks for earth can form in a wet enviromrnt.

 

(sorry i cant remember who did this first, and google has let me down )

Here's a write up of the above mentioned experiment

 

http://science.krishna.org/Articles/2000/07/00059.html

Saturn's Moon Titan is next

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050917_titan_shore.html