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At 11:03 PM 8/6/96, Glenn Morton wrote:
>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--
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