Oct 19 1982
From The Space Library
Astronomers from JPL and the University of Hawaii on October 19 reported detection on two solar-system bodies-Pluto and Neptune's largest satellite Triton-of frozen methane, a substance present on Earth as a product of living Organisms and petroleum. Although the surfaces, mostly water ice, of Pluto and Triton differed from those of other bodies orbiting the Sun, the methane did not seem to come from biological activity. (NASA Release 82-157; JPL anno Oct 20/82)
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