[meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:27:04 -0700
Message-ID: <4AB0F5B8.1010408_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Hi listees,

Some interesting reading...

"...To test if meteorites might protect bacteria on their journey
through space, Horneck and her colleagues mixed samples of 50 million
spores with particles of clay, red sandstone, Martian meteorite, or
simulated Martian soil and made small lumps a centimeter in diameter.
Between 10,000 and 100,000 spores of the original 50 million survived
and when mixed with red sandstone, nearly all survived, suggesting that
even meteorites a centimeter in diameter can carry life from one planet
to another, if they completed the journey within a few years. In a rock
a meter across, bacteria could probably survive for millions of years...."

Still don't believe?

Can Microbes Survive a Million-Year Space Journey? Experts Say "Yes"
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/can-microbes-survive-a-millionyear-space-journey-experts-say-yes.html

Still no?

Bugs In Space!
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071211-st-space-microbes.html

How about this one?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317153047.htm

Or this:

http://www.astrobiology.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28594

And this...

http://www.physorg.com/news163259938.html

Even More...

http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/?tag=space-rocks

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080515-am-asteroid-impacts.html

http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/30/picture-of-the-day-bacteria-astronauts/

Possible Martians:
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=9294

And this from the WashingtonPost.com website (Oct 1999)

"...A case study from the Apollo 12 mission in 1969 provides a
cautionary tale. On the lunar surface, astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan
Bean retrieved a camera from the Surveyor robot craft, which had landed
almost three years earlier, and carried it back to Earth. Analysts at
what is now NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston concluded that a
common Earth bacterium, Streptococcus mitis (found in the human mouth,
throat and nose), most likely had flown aboard Surveyor from Earth to
the moon and survived years in the vacuum ? apparently nestled deep
inside the camera in a foam insulation between two circuit boards..."

Supporting articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reports_of_Streptococcus_mitis_on_the_moon
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=10180

Space Bugs:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/space_bugs_021217.html

Deadly Space Bacteria:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070924-space-bacteria.html

Ancient Life Revived:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/antarctic_life_021216.html

Bugs From Hell!
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=1245

More Extremophiles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile

Water Bears:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Bears

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14690-water-bears-are-first-animal-to-survive-space-vacuum.html

Nasa Hunts For Extremophiles:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/07feb_cloroxlake.htm

New Extreme Life Form: 2005
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050224093714.htm

Search For Life On Mars In Methane; NASA: Sept. 2009
http://www.livescience.com/researchinaction/ria-090910.html

And finally we're still left with the question...

Are We Aliens?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/14/are-we-aliens/

To all you guys that say Aliens have nothing to do with Meteorites...
Aliens have EVERYTHING to do with meteorites!

Hope you guys enjoy this post...

Regards,
Eric Wichman
www.MeteoritesUSA.com
www.MeteoriteBlog.com
www.Spacifieds.com
Received on Wed 16 Sep 2009 10:27:04 AM PDT