In 2009, glycine sampled in 2004 from comet Wild 2 by the NASA spacecraft Stardust was confirmed--the first discovery of glycine outside the Earth, although glycine had been identified in the Murchison meteorite in 1970.
Glycine sampled in 2004 from comet Wild 2 by the NASA spacecraft Stardust was confirmed--the first discovery of glycine outside the Earth, although glycine had been identified in the Murchison meteorite in 1970. This was in 2009.