(meteorobs) OT -Scan of intact Meteorites for Bacteria & Early life forms?

[Ed Majden]

Larry:
	As far as I know this claim is still controversial.  Some say these 
bacteria like features  are produced by inorganically, without 
biological influences.  At any rate an MIR cannot be used to examine 
meteorites.  When one gets an MIR all metallic material must be 
removed. Mark is correct, a scanning electron microscope would be used 
to examine a thin section.
Ed


On 8-Apr-09, at 10:53 PM, stange wrote:

>  bacteria found in
> an Antarctic meteor