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Astrobiology (ALIENS) with Kevin Peter Hand

Ologies with Alie Ward

The Mars Meteorite, the Allen Hills Meteorite, the ALH 8001

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There's historical precedent for exactly this. The ALH 8001 meteorite was studied and could be determined to have come from Mars back in the late 90s. This actually helped catalyze and initiate much of the current field of astrobiology. Most scientists who studied that meteorite think that probably what was seen in that meteorite was contamination from organics on Earth and potentially microbes on Earth.

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