[meteorite-list] Italian Researchers Find Traces Of Life In Meteorites

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:46:22 2004
Message-ID: <20010510170147.61420.qmail_at_web10402.mail.yahoo.com>

Quote
The bacteria were described as very primitive
organisms
with a DNA network but no IMMUNE SYSTEM.
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What in the world does this mean!?

Matteo? Can you translate this article for us?

This is going to be, either very big news, or VERY
embarrassing. (Why do I think the later?)

Bob V.

--- Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>
>
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/010510014102.tc9rjtea.html
>
> Italian researchers find traces of life in
> meteorites
>
> ROME (AFP) May 10, 2001
> Italian researchers have found traces of life in 4.5
> billion-year-old meteorites, according to the
Italian daily Corriere
> della Sera.
>
> Geologist Bruno D'Argegno and molecular biologist
> Giuseppe Geraci, both from
> the Federico II University in Naples, borrowed
> meteorite samples from a
> local museum and introduced them to a "physiological
> solution," D'Argegno
> told the paper.
>
> "Then we saw these micro-organisms appear and begin
> to move," the researcher
> said.
>
> The scientists noted 78 different types of bacteria
> -- known as
> crystallo-microbes or "crim" for short -- which they
> identified as being
> similar to ones which existed on Earth some 3.5
> billion years ago.
>
> The bacteria were described as very primitive
> organisms, with a DNA network
> but no immune system.
>
> The two Italian experts presented their conclusions
> to the Italian Space
> Agency (ASI) on Wednesday, the paper said.
>
> The space agency's scientific director,
> astrophsicist Giovanni F. Bignami
> hailed the findings as "an excellent basis for
> boosting research programmes
> dedicated to the search for life on other planets in
> the solar system."
>
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