Re: Martian microbe

Glenn Morton (GRMorton@gnn.com)
Tue, 06 Aug 1996 23:03:01

I just saw the Nightline report on the Martian microbes. The report will
be in Science. Richard Zare stated that he had pictures of cell-like
objects from the meteor plus hydrocarbons indicative of life. This
reminds me of a photo in Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickranasighe's book
_Living Comets_ p. 69. Objects that look very much like Pedomicrobium
were found in the Murchison meteor.

Amino acids extracted from the Murchison meteor are predominately of the
left handed form which is the form of amino acid that living systems make.
See Engel et al, "Carbon Isotope Composition of individual Amino Acids"
Nature 348 Nov 1, 1990 pp 47-48 and Engel and Nagy, "Enantiomeric
Composition of Amino Acids in the Murchison Meteorite" Nature 296 Apr. 29,
1982 p. 838

glenn
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