From: Wretch Fossil on
Martian meteorite ALH84001 contains fossilized trace of collagen
fibril

Martian meteorite ALH84001 is found to have contained fossilized trace
of collagen fibril, which is marked as object D in Figure 1 below. The
figure has been copied from an article written by NASA scientists
(note 1). Object D was a Martian collagen fibril for the following
reasons:

1. It was imaged from meteorite ALH84001, which originated from Mars.
No scientists disputed that.
2. Object D measures about 200 nanometers across and shows cross
striations that resemble striations of terrestrial collagen fibrils at
magnification of 23,000X as viewed with TEM (Figure 2). A terrestrial
collagen fibril ranges from 10 to 300 nanometers in diameter (note 2).
3. Terrestrial collagen fibers could be mineralized as shown in the
micrographs of an Israeli scientist (Figure 3).
4. The characteristic striations of collagen fibrils in Figures 1 and
2 are easily visible when the two figures are enlarged to 200% of
their original sizes, as shown respectively in Figure 4 and Figure 5
below.

Figure 1:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=28&f=1176867914&p=108

Figure 2:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=28&f=1176877107&p=109

Figure 3:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=28&f=1176877109&p=110

Figure 4:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=28&f=1176877110&p=111

Figure 5:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=28&f=1176877108&p=112

Note 1: The article is displayed at
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/403099main_GCA_2009_final_corrected..pdf
Page 18 of the article shows the subject figure.

Note 2: See an illustratin of collagen fibril in Figure 6 at
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=28&f=1176877105&p=113

Collagen fibrils don’t show striations if they are not imaged at high
enough magnification. An example is in Figure 7 at
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=28&f=1176877106&p=114

From: nuny on
On Jun 6, 2:54 am, Wretch Fossil <wretchfos...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Martian meteorite ALH84001 contains fossilized trace of collagen
> fibril

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP3P-ZVv91Q


Mark L. Fergerson