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Fossil Diatoms in a New Carbonaceous Meteorite

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[If this proves to be true and accurate, it is a monumental discovery! --chris]

"Minutes after a large fireball was seen by a large number of people in the skies over Sri Lanka on 29 December 2012, a large meteorite disintegrated and fell in the village of Araganwila, which is located a few miles away from the historic ancient city of Polonnaruwa.

"The meteorite when examined under a light microscope exhibits a highly porous and composite structure characteristic of a carbonaceous chondrite, with fine-grained olivine aggregates connected with mineral intergrowths. A few percent carbon as revealed by EDX analysis confirms the status of a carbonaceous meteorite..."

Complete Paper HERE: The Polonnaruwa meteorite

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To me, this is as important as a flying saucer landing on the white house lawn. thanks for posting this Chris!
 
Chris did post this first: [If this proves to be true and accurate, it is a monumental discovery! --chris]
I am sure he did that to keep you from spewing forth. Sadly, it did not work.

Tell us lance, where do you get your scientific news?

 
lancemoody said:
Overlooking the many objections that have been voiced about the Journal of Cosmology, isn't the stupidity of this indicated by the fact that the paper is published just a couple of weeks after the meteor dropped? So the research got done, the paper was written and peer review happened all in the space of two weeks?

Please.

I am not faulting Chris for posting it at all. It is interesting but I think it is more interesting how embarrassing it must be for the Journal to reveal their obviously bogus system of peer review.

Skeptical blogger and biologist PZ Myers said of the journal "... it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the... website of a small group... obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth."

Don't get your news from nuts is what I suppose I am saying.

Here's a discussion about another the time that the dubious Journal of Cosmology did the exact same thing. You remember how science got turned on it's axis then, don't you?

No?

Lance
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Well, I might agree The Journal of Cosmology is suspicious, but to reference PZ Myers ?
THIS PZ Myers? Pharyngula - Just another site

The guy is an android programmed to eliminate any sort of imagination with extreme prejudice.
He is out to kill any sense of wonder or awe that people who actually have working amygdalas and emotions have.
If he had been alive when Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity, Myers would have eliminated dear old Albert and burned his papers.
I even heard Phillip Klass was jealous of him.

To me, Myers represents the worst of the worst in skepticism. He wants to maintain the status quo at all cost, and kill anything outside his neat little box of his view of the universe.
 
I presume this fossil-shaped thing was definitely from inside a part of the meteor. I'm no geologist or whatever and I suppose you need to make sure that a fossil in the area didn't just get caught up in the impact of the meteorite.

If it is from the meteorite I suppose it's possible it's something that looks like a fossil but then again it says it looks like carbonaceous chondrite thingy.

As Chris said, if it turns out to be correct then it is massive news.
 
I am amused at the implied connection to an ALLEGED "red rain" fall that supposedly took place in the vicinity of the meteorite impact site. Curious synchronicity IF (and I said IF, Lance) this correlation is real...


"Red rain is falling down, red rain..." -Peter Gabriel
 
And this is a totally different ball game from the sociological ufo phenomenon I spoke about in a different thread. There is (supposedly) tangible evidence that, if treated correctly, should affirm or refute our hypothesis that this is a life fossil bearing meteroite. A prime example of why science is the most powerful tool we have for modeling our world.
 
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