One of the illustrations of ''Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess'' published in Brussels in 1833. Illustration by Achille Devéria | Excess Baggage |
One supposition is that the discovery of an enantiomeric imbalance in molecules in the Murchison meteorite supports an extraterrestrial origin of homochirality: there is evidence for the existence of circularly polarized light originating from Mie scattering on aligned interstellar dust particles which may trigger the formation of an enantiomeric excess within chiral material in space.