I don't think it gives more weight to panspermia. Rather, IMHO, it gives us more information on how the conditions on Earth might have been when life emerged.

I don't think it gives more weight to panspermia. Rather, IMHO, it gives us more information on how the conditions on Earth might have been when life emerged. We're getting more and more clues that a lot of the basic blocks of life are present in asteroids and thus might have been present on the primordial Earth as well in some watery soup where life emerged.