The theory of two astronomers like what microorganisms could live on tchouri comet is no unanimity within the scientific community. >
At a scientific meeting held Monday, July 6 in Britain, two British astronomers, Chandra Wickramasinghe, the University of Buckingham, and Max Wallis, of Cardiff University , announced that the comet tchouri, currently being explored by Philae could house an abundant microbial life.
Soon, this hypothesis was relayed, including The Guardian . According to her, some features like organic matter rich black crust left thinking that living organisms could live on its frozen surface. Despite the statements of two astronomers, experts of the comet were very skeptical.
This Tuesday, July 7, Uwe Meierhenrich, who works as a co-investigator on the COSAC Philae, the tool that chemically analyzing the comet was keen to clarify the situation. At present, no scientific team of the Rosetta mission presupposes the presence of micro-organisms living under the surface of the comet. She also recalled that the Philae robot is not equipped with instruments to study life.
This is not the first time that Chandra Wickramasinghe, professor of applied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Buckingham since 2011, publishes a questionable assumption.
He said it had found fossils in meteorites, or that NASA is hiding information about extraterrestrial life. In 2003, he had also said that the flu virus had an extraterrestrial origin!
Dave Rothery, planetary geology professor, will report on the social network Facebook what everyone thinks everything down “Micro-algae discovered in comets, my ass!” .
No comments:
Post a Comment