[meteorite-list] 13 years later - Martian meteorite surrenders new secrets

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:04:04 -0700
Message-ID: <C2628319ACB14BCBB853D556EB0E0857_at_bellatrix>

In order for the statistics to be affected, we'd need to know that life
developed independently on two planets in our system. It's plausible that
life developed on Mars and was transported to Earth via meteorites.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Meteorites USA" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
To: "Greg Stanley" <stanleygregr at hotmail.com>;
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 13 years later - Martian meteorite surrenders
new secrets


> Hi List,
>
> If this turns out to be fossilized microbial life forms from Mars, that
> means there are two planets in one solar system that harbor(ed) life!
> Meaning the chances of there being life OUT THERE beyond our small part of
> the cosmos just increased exponentially. I mean, if there is verifiable
> and incontrovertible evidence of life being discovered to be from TWO
> planets in one solar system we're certainly not alone in this solar
> system, and most probably there's other life out there beyond our tiny
> little neighborhood solar system in our galaxy, not to mention the vast
> reaches of the universe!
>
> Seems we just had a discussion about that not too long ago and there were
> a whole bunch of naysayers.
>
> Real aliens... Imagine that... ;)
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
Received on Mon 30 Nov 2009 01:04:04 PM PST