Asteroid horror: Egypt struck by killer space rocks that are 'master key' to life on Mars

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Asteroid horror: Egypt struck by killer space rocks that are 'master key' to life on Mars
ASTEROIDS struck Egypt in a shock event that scientists believe could now reveal the “master key” to whether there is life on Mars.
By GURSIMRAN HANS
PUBLISHED: 00:32, Fri, Sep 6, 2019 | UPDATED: 10:46, Fri, Sep 6, 2019

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Two Asteroids Hit These Remarkable Martian Rocks Before They Ended Up in Egypt
These rocks have seen some things, man.

By Passant Rabie on September 5, 2019

More than 100 years ago, a meteorite from Mars fell onto a small farming village in Egypt’s Nile Delta, and has held secrets from the red planet in its rocky core ever since. But through some serious space detective work, a group of scientists were able to determine that the red planet temporarily had water, just from studying meteorites that landed on Earth in 1911.

The nakhlite meteorites, named after El Nakhla, a village in the Beheira Governorate in Northern Egypt where they were first discovered, contains evidence of water activity on Mars that occured millions of years ago.
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1. Love stories like this

reminds me of a BBC series I watched called 'Connections' with James Burke. Science + History.

[marble falls]

2. Good stuff, Maynard!