[meteorite-list] ALH 84001
From: Becky and Kirk <bandk_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:21:34 -0600 Message-ID: <E3F8875546FC4B68B6ED58415ECBB240_at_owner55652f88b> Shawn makes some very good points indeed! Kirk......:-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Alan" <photophlow at yahoo.com> To: <epgrondine at yahoo.com> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ALH 84001 > Hello Listers, > > There is a great documentary by National Geographic / Naked Science called > Alien Falls which the bulk of the episode is about the Grimsby meteorite > fall but there is a five minute segment concerning the ALH84001 meteorite. > David McKay, astrobiologist from NASA Johnson Space Center and his team of > scientist go into great detail in explain how magnetites found in the > ALH84001 meteorite could possibly be fossils from bacteria from Mars. > > In the video, McKay explains this process by stating that his scientific > team found within the ALH84001 meteorite golden spherical shaped disks > called carbonates, which could indicate that these carbonates came from an > environment where there was water or is water. > > Within the carbonates the scientists found magnetite chains that resemble > magnetite chains found in magnetotactic bacteria on Earth. McKay in the > documentary believes that?s these magnetite chains could be traces of > bacteria fossils from Mars. On Earth when a magnetotactic bacteria decay, > what is left is a magnetite chain, which could suggest that these chains > found in the carbonates from ALH84001 meteorite could be an indication > that they came from bacteria that formed in or around water. > > With the proof that there was water on Mars and that there might still be > water on Mars one could conclude that at one time, there might have been > life on that red, desolate, planet we call Mars which has been around > since the birth of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago. That is a lot > of time for the life and death of any species or bacteria to form, live, > die, and decay. > > I wonder how long it would take the Earth to rot away to its true natural > state if the atmosphere and magnetic field was gone? One million years and > all signs of civilization could be erased and only mother Earths raw > natural state to show for? Something to think about when considering if > life does or did existed elsewhere. Earth 4.6 billion years?. Universe > about 14 billion years and counting. > > > > > Shawn Alan > IMCA 1633 > eBaystore > http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html > > > > > [meteorite-list] ALH 84001 > E.P. Grondine epgrondine at yahoo.com > Sun Mar 6 16:05:33 EST 2011 > > Previous message: [meteorite-list] Contest - Name this person, win a free > shergottite specimen! > Next message: [meteorite-list] ID card/website/etc > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi all - > > Some of you may remember several years back my several part tale of my > dramatic involvement (and lack therof) in the breaking of the ALH84001 > fossils story. > > For what its worth, I think that those strcutures are fossils, based on my > conversation at that time with Dr. MacKay's SEM specialist. He found that > the PHAs were bound by the structures' walls, and the later finds of > magnetite grains in the structure appear to me as a below surface sensory > mechanism. > > I tend to go with Marc on this news, and with his analysis of how the > error occured. > > E.P. Grondine > Man and Impact in the Americas > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Previous message: [meteorite-list] Contest - Name this person, win a free > shergottite specimen! > Next message: [meteorite-list] ID card/website/etc > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > More information about the Meteorite-list mailing list > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Sun 06 Mar 2011 11:21:34 PM PST |
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