MadSci Network: Astronomy |
The short answer to your question is no. A slightly longer version: the rock found in Antarctica, if you do, in fact, refer to the meteorite ALH84001, found by the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Meteorite Program in 1984, is being studied in Houston, Texas at the Johnson Space Center's Meteorite Processing Lab. The meteorite itself has been tenatively dated at approximately 4.5 billion years, and is thought to contain evidence of 3.6 billion year old life from Mars. We do know that it impacted Earth about 13,000 years ago, and was most likely dislodged from Mars in a very large impact 16 million years ago.
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