Egg found in Martian Meteorite

[zorgon]

Egg found in Martian Meteorite

The Tissint Mars meteorite "egg"

SCIENTISTS claim this egg-shaped object is the final proof of life on Mars after finding it inside a meteorite from the Red Planet.

Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe said the globule from the rock named Tissint is rich in carbon and oxygen and insisted they could only have been produced by living organisms.

He added that they could not have been caused by contamination when they fell to Earth.

Prof Wickramasinghe, 72 — famous for controversial ideas such as that the flu virus and even life itself was brought to our planet by comets — said: "It is impossible to understand how carbon-rich particles of such uniform sizes and shapes got inside a rocky matrix if they are not relics of some algal species.

"Tissint was collected weeks after it fell, and terrestrial contamination seems unlikely. In any case the structures we found were on newly fractured surfaces, from the interior of the meteorite."

The meteorite was named after the village where it came down in the Sahara desert in Morocco last July.

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http://meteorito-meteorite.blogspot.com/

DISCOVERY OF BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES IN THE TISSINT MARS METEORITE

Summary. Preliminary SEM/EDAX studies of the Tissint meteorite shows projections of interior spherical globules rich in C and O. Such concentrations of carbonaceous material in a matrix of mineral grains poses a mystery if biological processes are excluded. They are consistent with remnants of biological structures, thus supporting earlier similar claims for the Mars meteorite ALH84001..

Key Words: Meteorites, Mars meteorite, panspermia, exobiology

The Tissint meteorite, identified as a meteorite from Mars, fell onto the Morrocan desert some 30 miles south of the village of Tissint on June 18, 2011. Shattered pieces of the meteorite were recovered in October 2011, and is only just coming to be analysed and studied. A thick fusion crust that surrounds the meteorite fragments give confidence in the assertion that the interior material is pristine and uncontaminated. Its mineralogic characterisation as olivine-phyric shergottite of Martian origin appears to be well accepted, with a most likely origin in a relatively young lava regolith that solidified 400-500 million years ago. The meteorite has been found to contain pockets of Martian atmosphere which also confirms its Martian origin

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Official Paper:

http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC18/TissintFinal.pdf

Here is another copy of the image with size reference from Hortonheardawho



http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/7129365787/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Official classification from LPI

[ex]Basic information    Name: Tissint
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 2011
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 7 kg
Classification - Recommended:  Martian (shergottite)
This is 1 of 86 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Martian (shergottite).[/ex]

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=54823


Another sample of a Martian meteorite from the Tissint fall, which dropped chunks of the Red Planet in the Moroccan desert in July 2011.
CREDIT: © 2011 Darryl Pitt / Macovich Collection

http://www.space.com/14268-rare-mars-meteorite-rocks-tissint.html

"There's at least 11 kilos [24 pounds]," Pitt told SPACE.com.

Pitt said he had acquired more than 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of Tissint meteorites. He has been trading and selling pieces to collectors, museums and researchers around the globe, at prices ranging from $8,500 per ounce to $28,350 per ounce ($300 to $1,000 per gram), depending on the sample.

As of Tuesday, gold was selling for about $1,650 per ounce ($58 per gram).

"It's pristine material," Pitt said. "Five hundred dollars and $600 a gram for a freshly fallen chunk of the planet Mars? I'd say that's a deal."

Oh great.... just what I needed... some idiot driving up the price  I was hoping to get a chunk before it went too high

[Amaterasu]

Wow.  I wonder how chunks of Mars wound up in space to fall on the earth....

As for the price...  Sorry, zorg.  You missed the window of opportunity!  LOL!

[Littleenki]

Ill split the cost of one with you, Zorgon, and we each can have a nanogram...LOL!
What an amazing find, definitely life changing for those meteor men!
Cheers!
Littleenki

[Linda Brown]

There is a woman who lives not far from me who is an official " meteor hunter". She is linked up with various sides of the NRO and she will get a flash if something is scheduled to land somewhere in southern California. She has first grabs if she can find it and recognize it of course before it falls into other hands. At those prices I can see why she loves her work!
But my understanding is tht she works for a private concern though her credentials seem to get her places not available elewhere!  Linda

[Littleenki]

There is a woman who lives not far from me who is an official " meteor hunter". She is linked up with various sides of the NRO and she will get a flash if something is scheduled to land somewhere in southern California. She has first grabs if she can find it and recognize it of course before it falls into other hands. At those prices I can see why she loves her work!
But my understanding is tht she works for a private concern though her credentials seem to get her places not available elewhere!  Linda

Like the first person on a crime scene, who knew the killer...scoop up the evidence and run!
What a cool job to have, though, and I bet she could answer some questions weve posted here, as well!
I wonder if there are meteors around my area, and where and how I should go about finding them. Study time!
Zorgon and Linda, youve got me going!!
Le

[OPHI13]

When I observed this object @ first I thought seed of some kind zorgon.  Which could explsin how it ended up inside a rock that may have been part of the martian ground.  It will be interesting to see more results from the scientific community on this and hope they are careful when handeling it.  As far as it being egg and how it got bonded inside the martian rock 1 would think then it would of been planted by small creature/insect that borrows in the ground of martian surface.  Not sure but very interesting.

[sky otter]

 

i'm suprised some one didn't want to try and hatch it.. (that a yoke, son..any other leghorn fans)

and hey LE
there is a tv show about guys hunting meteorites
sometimes they are very funny and so very inventive
worth at least watching once

check it out
http://www.meteoritemen.com/

[Littleenki]

i'm suprised some one didn't want to try and hatch it.. (that a yoke, son..any other leghorn fans)

and hey LE
there is a tv show about guys hunting meteorites
sometimes they are very funny and so very inventive
worth at least watching once

check it out
http://www.meteoritemen.com/

No way, Sky, I never saw it but will now, as Im not the biggest TV guy.
Maybe they can show me a few ropes, and how to go for the big boys!
Thanks! and some of those sightings here in Florida seem to be centered around the Orlando and Kissimmee chain of lakes area, after a few calls Ive made to a friend who is a ufo enthusiast, so Ill be looking into the Orange county microfiche from 1945-48 soon!
I bet those first old timers werent to happy about anything landing in their pristine Florida back then, so it would be easily noticed and written about immediately.
Cheers!
Littleenki