Weight. it does. it not only identifies a vehicle that could bring the organic compounds to the planet but it shows they could not only have developed in space but the cosmic radiation in space is a catalyst for making these elements come together to create these building blocks of the amino acids. we are putting this piece together with another piece together that makes it possible for us to create let s say a scenario that could have caused this to happen. another recent study says that it s fairly common for both comets and planets to exist together around other stars. what s the significance of that? there s a couple of pieces that are significant there. we are now allowing for the possibility there are many more planets in our galaxy than we ve ....