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Stop this nonsense. There are no any proven meteorits from Mars.

I am not a scientist - just a regular citizen with some common sense

Please comment on the following:

Recent “Life on Mars” frenzy mostly based on the assumption that there
are 12 “Martian Meteorites” 

     /H. P. McSween Jr., Meteoritics 29, 757 (1994). Analyses of the
gases in glassy inclusions in the SNC meteorites EET79001 by Bogard and
Johnson [Science 221, 651 (1983)], Becker and Pepin[Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 69, 225 (1983)], and Marti et al.[Science 267, 1981 (1995)] have
shown that the abundance and isotopic compositions of the trapped gases
in the SNC meteorites and the measured atmospheric compositions on Mars,
measured in situ by the Viking landers, have a direct one-to-one
correlation (more than nine orders of magnitude in concentrations). This
remarkable agreement is one of the strongest arguments that the SNC
meteorites represent samples from Mars/

Leaving apart /by my opinion not substantiated/ conclusion of “Life
Traces” I am absolutely disagree with alleged Mars origin of these
meteorites. 
        Some common sense arguments:
1.      For MILLIONS years BILLIONS of meteorites traveling near Earth
orbit
2.      Planet Mars is a very, very, very, very small part of possible
originations of these Meteorites
3.      Scientists made probe of atmospheric composition on Mars one
time.
There are lot of probes which WERE NOT  made (on THOUSANDS of possible
origination places during MILLIONS of years)

BECAUSE OF CORRELATION OF ANALYSES OF THE CONTEMPORARY SAMPLE IN ONE
PLACE ON MARS TO THE 12 MILLIONS YEARS OLD SAMPLE ATMOSPHERIC
COMPOSITION - THESE METEORITES CALLED “MARTIAN” (!)    (As I understand
this is even not a DNA test or fingerprint which were BTW not conclusive
enough to convict O.J. :)
        
It is just shameful speculations filled with scientific terminology. 
Unfortunately it is a natural human tendency - when people does not have
real objective reliable and complete statistic data they attend to
speculate on the basis of what they have, to declare a “discovery”

I will very appreciate comments sent via E-Mail

Alexander Sheftman, New York

P.S. I think that many scientists just afraid to to tell the true
loudly...
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