I suppose its pointless to tell you that that was good work, but I will anyway.

It looks to me like this one is going to hold, so a follow up on the discovery chain would be interesting, at least to me, and I suspect for others...

I think you may be able to find an account of how the ALH84001 fossil story broke over in the meteorite list archives... ho ho ho...

2:09 - yeah. Another nice piece, one on a very "difficult" topic. On the Columbia disintegration, please contact me off list if you wish, and I'll be happy to pass along what I have... it's not what I'm working now... doubt if you'll want to write it up right away...

On my beat, my most recent "scoop" was to point out that scaling laws relating blast energy to crater diameter which Shoemaker used in his studies are now known to be seriously, seriously, defective. This may ripple through the LPI sessions in Salon A, and perhaps some accurate estimates as to the extent of cometary impact may finally start to emerge... or it may not. Everyone is hitting data that they can't really explain using the existing models, and my guess is that cometary impact will go a long way towards clearing things up for them, if any of them have guts enough to consider it. If this story does not break this year with the new Mars crater counts, it will with the crater counts from the Cassini Saturn system data... I don't know who is doing the counts on that, or where they will be at the LPI... I'll be in Illinois with my work...

which I intend to get back to tomorrow, and leave a few of these shit slinging chimps here to their pleasures... before then, I may spend a few minutes trying to dig the usualy pitiful NASA NEO detection funding out of the budget docs...

all the best,
ed