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  • McKay cited years of work by team members Kathie Thomas-Keprta and Simon Clemett that he said rebuts a central critique of the meteorite's significance.

    NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils 2010

  • McKay cited years of work by team members Kathie Thomas-Keprta and Simon Clemett that he said rebuts a central critique of the meteorite's significance.

    NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils 2010

  • Furthermore, there is evidence that Mars once had shallow seas, as well a thick atmosphere, so if the meteorite had landed into one, it would have absorbed even more of the meteorite's kinetic energy and it would have just settled at the bottom of the sea, which has since evaporated and the water is now locked up as permafrost at Mars' poles.

    Opportunity Finds Another Big Meteorite | Universe Today 2009

  • But the meteorite's journey began 4 billion years earlier, when it was part of the crust of Mars.

    Come In, Mars 2008

  • The significance of this particular meteorite strike, aside from its direct hit on the car's trunk, is that it is only the fourth instance for which accurate data on a meteorite's trajectory was recovered.

    Oct. 9, 1992: My Insurance Agent Will Never Believe This 2007

  • "But of what value is the meteorite's association with a known impact?"

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • Flipping faster now, he saw a graphic display depicting the ionized hydrogen content in the meteorite's crust.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • Dangling there on its cables, dripping wet, the meteorite's rugged surface glistened in the fluorescent lights, charred and rippled with the appearance of an enormous petrified prune.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • Barring the issue of the meteorite's authenticity?

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • Part of the rim was charred and black, apparently a segment of the meteorite's outer skin.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

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