Stephen Ornes on February 28, 2008 4:36 PM
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According to the Meteoritical Society, more than 30,000 meteorities have been identified. (Meteorites are the interstellar rocks that make it through our atmosphere and land on Earth.) Most of them come from the rocky debris (like asteroids and comets) floating through space, but a few dozen are believed to have originated on Mars or the moon.
Or Mercury? (What, can anomalous meteorites only come from places the begin with the letter “M�)
In a new paper submitted to the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, two Canadian astronomers crunch the numbers and find that we should expect Mercury-borne meteorites to strike the Earth at roughly half the rate of those from Mars. In other words, there might already be a few pieces of Mercury here on Earth.
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Ted Alvarez on November 13, 2007 8:57 AM
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Well, I guess I owe Carl Sagan $50 after all. Recent research involving artificial meteorites sent to and returned from space shows that microbial elements survived the journey, lending credence to the idea that the origins of all life on earth could have originated from an alien source.
Did you hear that sound? That whooshing noise is the collective intake of breath from millions of stoners who "invented" this same idea while hitting a wad of Hawaiian Gold in a four-foot banana bong. Now those same jerks will think they're right about everything.
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