First Protein discovered in a meteorite ?

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First Protein discovered in a meteorite ?

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This news might be important, right?
See https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11688
"Hemolithin: a Meteoritic Protein containing Iron and Lithium
Malcolm. W. McGeoch, Sergei Dikler, Julie E. M. McGeoch
(Submitted on 22 Feb 2020)
This paper characterizes the first protein to be discovered in a meteorite. ..."
(The link to this story just popped up at Instapundit.)
More here:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2002/2002.11688.pdf
which includes this statement:
"SIGNIFICANCE
This is the first report of a protein from any extra-terrestrial source."
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