Martian Fossils On Earth: The Story of Meteorite ALH 84001

Martian Fossils On Earth: The Story of Meteorite ALH 84001 — page 3
The rock is known as meteorite ALH 84001 It is about the size and shape of a potato and weighs 1 94 kilograms about 4 pounds A meteorite is a rock that fell to Earth from space Meteorite ALH 84001 landed in the Allan Hills area of Antarctica about 13,000 years ago It was discovered discovered in December 1984 by the scientists of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites ANSMET project originally led by William A Cassidy and now led by Ralph P Harvey ANSMET scientists have found about more than 20,000 meteorites since the project began in 1976 After each meteorite hunting season the ANSMET scientists send their extraterrestrial rock collection to the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center JSC in Houston Houston Texas There the meteorites are numbered and