(meteorobs) Fwd: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine: "The Other Mars Meteorite"

Lewis J. Gramer lgramer at upstream.net
Wed Sep 15 11:16:38 EDT 2004


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The Other Mars Meteorite


The most famous Mars meteorite, the one with strange, cylindrical rock segments, may not be the most intriguing. Consider a rock
launched from Mars only 700 million years ago called Lafayette. Judging by detailed chemical analysis, the outcome of its long
journey to Earth did little to obscure its earlier life at the bottom of some salt-water pool. Or at least that conclusion is what
meteor scientists suspect might have landed in North America about three millenia ago.
Full story...    Wednesday, September 15

http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1197.html





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