Is Martian meteorite ALH84001 still being investegated?

Subject: Is Martian meteorite ALH84001 still being investegated?

Date: Sat Nov 4 16:21:07 2000
Posted by Matt Gillespie
Grade level: undergrad School: No school entered.
City: El Paso State/Province: Texas Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 973372867.As

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Has anyone explored the possibility that the bacteria micro-fossil like 
structures in the famed martian meteorite, are, in fact, not bacteria 
fossils but perhaps virus fossils(secondary question:  do viruses 
fossilize?)
If not virus fossil, then could they be early, primitive forms of life 
like RNA "capsules?"

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