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Recent studies of comet Tempel 1 (Figure 3) have shown evidence of organic molecules, clay particles as well as liquid water, providing an ideal setting for the operation of the “clay theory” of the origin of life (Cairns-Smith, 1966; Napier et al., 2007).
