Has life been found in a meteorite?

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Mar 5, 2011 8:41 PMJun 29, 2023 2:23 PM

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[UPDATE (March 7, 2011): I’ve posted a followup on this news with a much more detailed analysis, and not too surprisingly the scientific consensus coming in is that the claims of alien fossils are way wrong.]

Richard Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks he may have found bacteria in a meteorite.

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