* Astronomy

Title: Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites
Authors: Richard B. Hoover, Ph.D. NASA/Marshall Space Flight Centre

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 sulphur bacteria. He concludes these fossilised bacteria are not Earthly contaminants but are the fossilised remains of living organisms which lived in the parent bodies of these meteors, e.g. comets, moons, and other astral bodies. The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets.
Members of the Scientific community were invited to analyse the results and to write critical commentaries or to speculate about the implications. These commentaries will be published on March 7 through March 10, 2011.

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