[Rockhounds] Licking Rocks -- Scientists Find Sugar in Meteorites

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Researchers found evidence of sugar molecules in primitive meteorites,
according to a new study. Now, if you please, I would like to taste the
rocks.

Yes, I understand that sugar is a family of molecules that consists of more
than just the sucrose molecules I use to make my coffee a little more
exciting. In fact, ribose, one of the sugar molecules found on these rocks,
is an essential biological molecule that serves as a building block of
genetic material. I don’t care. Let me lick it.

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-find-sugar-in-meteorites-now-let-me-lick-th-1839978916