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...persuaded to do the film by Chris Lee, now Columbia's president of production but then head of its TriStar division (both owned by Sony). The partners put on hold a movie they had in the works, dubbed Project X, about ("I kid you not," says Devlin) a giant meteor on a collision course with Earth. Lee was also the most persistent of the studio execs in persuading Toho to lend out its famous monster. Still, when he saw Tatopoulos' model just hours before it was unveiled for the Toho board of directors in Tokyo, Lee was stunned...
...Shoemaker will finally get his dearest wish. When NASA's Lunar Prospector blasted off toward the moon last week, it carried a small capsule containing an ounce of Gene Shoemaker's ashes. On brass foil surrounding the capsule was an image of Arizona's Meteor Crater, where Shoemaker trained NASA's astronauts. After reaching the moon this week, the spacecraft will ease into a 63-mile-high orbit, peer down and begin a search for minerals, gases and any evidence of water. Then, some 18 months from now, Prospector will crash onto the lunar surface, carrying Gene Shoemaker's ashes...
...always was a barren, lifeless rock, there's one that suggests it once teemed with life ? and sure enough, we're more likely to listen to the latter. That was evident when a report in the journal Science pooh-poohing NASA?s claims over the supposedly fossilized Martian meteor was elbowed aside in the media by Friday's edition of Nature. The latter, gathering evidence from the Pathfinder mission, said Mars was once warm, moist ? and more likely to have harbored some form of extra-terrestrial...
...ALH84001? Of course you do. It's the chunk of 16-million-year-old Martian rock found in the Antarctic wastes last year over which everyone from NASA to the White House went ga-ga. Until now, prevailing scientific opinion said the worm-like forms on the potato-sized meteor meant there may have once been life on Mars ? little green bacteria, if not little green...
Life on Mars? NASA got us all excited about apparent signs of life found on a Martian meteor. But apparently they weren't bugs, just a feature...