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DIGGING INTO DATA ON MARS LIFE CLAIM;
RESEARCH COMMUNITY’S VERDICT ON METEORITE EVIDENCE IS YEARS AWAY
By Kathy Sawyer
The Washington Post | Thursday, March 20, 1997, pg. A03
At times it sounded like the first O.J. Simpson trial, with opposing arguments, conflicting witnesses and disputes about contaminated evidence.
Seven months after the startling report that traces of primitive ancient Martian life may have been detected in a meteorite from Mars, scientists met in Houston this week to discuss 34 new scientific papers that constitute the opening round of follow-up research on the topic. . .