{"id":32305,"date":"2011-03-05T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/has-life-been-found-in-a-meteorite-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T20:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:41:24","slug":"has-life-been-found-in-a-meteorite-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/has-life-been-found-in-a-meteorite-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Has life been found in a meteorite? | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Yes, you read that right. The question is, is he right?<\/p>

I don’t know. Dr. Hoover has published his findings in the online Journal of Cosmology<\/a> (see below for more about this journal), and it was reported today by <\/a>Fox News<\/a> (thanks to Sheril at The Intersection<\/a> for the tip). <\/p>

Basically, Hoover found structures inside a rare type of meteorite — the Orgueil meteorite<\/a> which fell in France in 1864 — that look very much like microbes of some sort. Here’s an example from the paper:<\/p>

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Those are odd and intriguing formations, to be sure. If I were scanning through a meteorite and saw those, I’d be pretty surprised too. <\/p>

But appearances can be deceiving. Are these actually<\/em> fossilized microscopic life forms?<\/p>

Hoover makes several claims to show that a non-biotic origin for these structures is very unlikely. I am not<\/em> an expert and won’t cast my vote either way here. This is not the first time Hoover has made such claims; he gave ...<\/a><\/p>

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Richard Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks he may have found bacteria in a meteorite.Yes, you read that right. The question is, is he right?I don’t know. Dr. Hoover has published his findings in the online … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}