[meteorite-list] New Life On Mars Evidence 'Conclusive'

From: capricorn89 <capricorn89_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:48:11 2004
Message-ID: <003001c152e3$e54458c0$df36b2d1_at_earthlink.net>

I'm curious. Why would this evidence first be presented in a "book" rather
than in a scientific paper, citing said evidence, and allowing researchers
to further evaluate the findings before mass distribution? Might this
merely be a device to sell a book. (Just an inquiry, that's all!) :=)

Ron Hartman

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From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] New Life On Mars Evidence 'Conclusive'


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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_419740.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscove
ry
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> New life on Mars evidence 'conclusive'
> Ananova
> October 10, 2001
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> A new book reveals Nasa scientists have found 'conclusive' evidence life
> once existed on Mars.
>
> Experts at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston say three meteorites they
> have analysed contain fossilised bacteria.
>
> They think life may have originated there four billion years ago and then
> arrived on Earth.
>
> The findings are revealed in the new book Mars: Inside The Red Planet by
Dr
> Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest.
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> Some of the best new evidence comes from the Nakhla meteorite which landed
> in Egypt in 1911.
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> 'Microfossils' inside it are said to be better than similar controversial
> findings in meteorite ALH 84001 revealed in 1996.
>
> The book quotes Nasa's Dr Everett Gibson as saying: "We opened it in a
clean
> lab and inside it found samples of clays which are probably in the 600 to
> 700-million-year-old time frame.
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> "Within these carbonates and clays are structures and features that are
even
> larger and better preserved than those we saw in 84001."
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