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Mars Meteorite Fossil Search

    Perhaps listmembers would like to join the search? Erik, my
fourteen-year-old son, is learning to use a SEM (Hitachi S-2400) at
Nassau Community College on Long Island. He intends to take a look at
meteorite specimens for suggestive (bacterial) forms in the range of
5,000X-25,000X. Geoff Cintron has been kind enough to provide him with
some specimens, but Erik has nothing more interesting than Allende and
Cold Bokkoudd (?) to work with.
    The specimens need not be large, but could be tiny (say 0.1gm), but
they would be adhered to an aluminum button-shaped stem about
three-quarters of an inch around and coated with a thin coating of gold
in a machine called a sputter-coater to prepare them for examination.
The specimens would not be destroyed, and except for the gold coating
should not be altered by the examination.
    Dr. Boesenberg, at Princeton, assures Erik that he will find (as did
he and a colleague) bacteria aplenty. Some, we suppose, from Geoff's
thumb.
    The embedding of suspictious shapes in matrix, though, would be
suggestive, and maybe the list could come up with a novel hypothesis or
methodology for Erik to explore?
Sincerely,
Carleton Palmer

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