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Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has traveled to remote areas in Antarctica, Siberia, and Alaska, amongst others, for over ten years now, collecting and studying meteorites. He gave FoxNews.com early access to the out-of-this-world research, published late Friday evening in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology. In it, Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites -- only nine such meteorites are known to exist on Earth.
Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites. Based on Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and other measures, Dr. Hoover has concluded they are indigenous to these meteors and are similar to trichomic cyanobacteria and other trichomic prokaryotes such as filamentous sulfur bacteria...
They are therefore interpreted as the indigenous remains of microfossils that were present in the meteorite rock matrix when the meteorite entered the Earth’s atmosphere. EDS elemental analyses carried out on the meteorite rock matrix and on living and fossil cyanobacteria and old and ancient biological materials have shown that the Orgueil filaments have elemental compositions that reflect the composition of the Orgueil meteorite matrix but that are very different from living and old microorganisms and biological filaments.
http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html
continued...Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites?
Category: Kooks
Posted on: March 6, 2011 9:44 AM, by PZ Myers
No.
No, no, no. No no no no no no no no.
No, no.
No.
Fox News broke the story, which ought to make one immediately suspicious — it's not an organization noted for scientific acumen. But even worse, the paper claiming the discovery of bacteria fossils in carbonaceous chondrites was published in … the Journal of Cosmology. I've mentioned Cosmology before — it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth. It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint. For a while, it seemed to be entirely the domain of a crackpot named Rhawn Joseph who called himself the emeritus professor of something mysteriously called the Brain Research Laboratory, based in the general neighborhood of Northern California (seriously, that was the address: "Northern California"), and self-published all of his pseudo-scientific "publications" on this web site.
It is not an auspicious beginning. Finding credible evidence of extraterrestrial microbes is the kind of thing you'd expect to see published in Science or Nature, but the fact that it found a home on a fringe website that pretends to be a legitimate science journal ought to set off alarms right there.
Evo said:You may want to read this.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php
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ricamonete said:I believe it's true... Why should we doubt that we are alone in this universe? Imagine, One in a billion star, there is a slight possibility that there will be a star that will be born that can support life?
We are not alone in this universe... :)
ricamonete said:I believe it's true... Why should we doubt that we are alone in this universe? Imagine, One in a billion star, there is a slight possibility that there will be a star that will be born that can support life?
We are not alone in this universe... :)
The NASA scientist claims to have found concrete evidence in the form of microbial fossils on a meteorite that originated from Mars.
The meteorite was collected during a NASA mission and was then analyzed using various scientific methods, including electron microscopy and spectroscopy.
Yes, the evidence has been peer-reviewed and confirmed by other scientists in the field, adding credibility to the NASA scientist's claims.
This discovery adds to the growing body of evidence that suggests the possibility of microbial life on other planets, and it opens up new avenues for further research and exploration.
NASA and the scientific community will continue to study the meteorite and its contents, as well as search for other potential sources of extraterrestrial life, in order to gain a better understanding of the origins and potential for life beyond our planet.