@article{302386,
      author = {Sawyer, Kathy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/302386},
      title = {The rock from Mars : a detective story on two planets /},
      publisher = {Random House,},
      abstract = {Sixteen million years ago, an asteroid crashing into Mars  sent fragments flying into space and, eons later, one was  pulled by the Earth's gravity onto the icy wilderness of  Antarctica, where a geologist spotted it. In its new home  at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the rock  languished on a shelf for nine years. Then, in 1993, a  geochemist unmasked the rock as a Martian meteorite. Before  long, possible signs of once-living organisms were  detected, and the obscure rock became a rock star. From the  second the story broke in Science magazine, it spawned  waves of excitement, envy, competitive zeal, and  calculation. The narrative traces the steps that led to  this risky move and follows the rippling impact on the  scientists' lives, the future of space exploration, the  search for life on Mars, and the struggle to understand the  origins of life on Earth.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {302386},
      pages = {xii, 394 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2006},
}