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Re: Mars again
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- Subject: Re: Mars again
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:57:30 GMT
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>I am scratching my head over one issue, however. With the recent contention
>that some Martian meteorites could contain traces of extraterrestrial
>bacteria, let's say you are a scientist devoting your entire life on
>finding traces of life in meteorites, wouldn't you want to examine the
>entire rock? Would one piece of the
>rock really suffice?
Good point. In the case of ALH84001 however, the potential microfossils
were just found in a few areas of the meteorite (the orange carbonate
areas), and not the entire meteorite. In fact, the 1996 paper from the
NASA/Stanford team was based on just just a 2 gram fragment of ALH84001.
Ron Baalke
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