II> JS> Scientists theorize that a meteor struck Mars eons ago, knocking a
 II> JS> rock into space which eventually found its way to Earth.
 II> JS> What if the rock had originated on Earth, a meteor struck Earth,
 II> JS> knocked the rock all the way to Mars, where another meteor then
 II> JS> struck Mars, knocking the same rock all the way back to Earth.
 II> JS> ...Seems just as feasible to me.
 II> Don't think so.  For a meteor to strike one planet, (Earth or Mars...
 II> or even a planet of another solar system... or even before this solar
 II> system was more than a disk of dust), with enough force to send a
 II> rock into space, where it found it's way to another planet, I
 II> consider possible. But for ANOTHER meteor to hit close enough to the
 II> landing spot to knock the SAME rock back to it's planet of origin...
 II> that would have to be the cosmic pool shot of all time! (And that
 II> means TRILLIONS of years!!!) No, in the words of Spock, it is not
 II> logical.  The odds against it are so high that not even a Cray - or
 II> Deep Thought, (of Hitchiker's Guide), could compute it in 42 and 1/2
 II> billion years!
 I heard the sample was most likely contaminated where it was found in some 
recent news reports.  You heard that? 
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