From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>, Fri, 24 Nov 2000
> << Folks, I just picked this up off cnn.com. Apparently a stratospheric
> research balloon has recovered bacteria from high altitudes which shows
> signs of being unlike bacteria originating on earth, allegedly a 'novel'
> variant of the common bacteria genus.
GROAN..... It continues... They see bacteria in *every dust
particle* in our solar system....
Please note that, in every major dust press anouncement made
this year, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe have followed it with a
"paper" of their own, claiming that the dust observation shows
evidence for bacteria.
BTW: The URL you pointed to:
http://www.astrobiology.cf.ac.uk/ points to
these Panspermia authors, in other words:
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http://www.astrobiology.cf.ac.uk/preprint.html
A bacterial "fingerprint" in a Leonid meteor train
Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle
Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology
School of Mathematics, Senghennydd Road
PO Box 926, Cardiff CF2 4YH, UK
E-mail: wickramasinghe@cf.ac.uk
Abstract
A recently observed broad 3.4 micron spectral "fingerprint" in a
persistent Leonid meteor train at a height of 83km is likely to be due
to emission of surrounding mesospheric bacteria heated by the passage
of an incandescent fireball.
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I wonder what journal would review this ??
Mike, if you want some dust astro news to boggle your mind, reread
my extropians post of Tue, 21 Nov 2000 (*).
Well.. it boggles *my* mind, anyway, but maybe my mind is just
easily boggled.
Amara
(*)
>P.S. One item I discuss in my article is a piece of news for many:
>
>A meteor radar station in New Zealand, the Advanced Meteor Orbit Radar
>station, has been collecting data of about 1000 radar meteors per day,
>of which 2 per day are interstellar in origin (not bound to the
>Sun). After some years of collecting data, there is enough data
>(thousands of detections) to show that one clear source of the
>interstellar dust particles (about 40 microns in size) is the nearby
>star beta Pictoris.
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