First seen on 14 May 1864, in the shape of an enormous fireball in the sky over southern France, the Orgueil meteorite is making headlines again – though this time its appearance has mostly been ill-received.
Last week, NASA scientist Richard Hoover at the Marshall Space Flight Center near Huntsville, Alabama, published a paper in the Journal of Cosmology claiming that fragments collected from the Orgueil meteorite and two similar meteorites contain fossilised bacteria.
Hoover made nearly identical claims in 2004 and again in 2007. This time, Hoover says that fibrous structures in the meteorites are almost exactly the same size and shape as photosynthetic bacteria found on Earth, especially one relatively large bacterium called Titanospirillum velox.
I don't understand all the personal attacks on Hoover. Why not simply disprove his results by doing additional research? To read the rest of the article, click here.