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It is my understanding...

It is my understanding that the meterorites in question were igneous in origin with hydrothermal alteration products within fractures.

So, there was a basalt flow whose heat caused a hydrothermal cell to develop which altered the rock along fractures, within which possible bacterial activity occured. It's not a sedimentary rock but it may contain fossil bacteria. Nothing more advanced than bacteria, though.

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