Hey Jonathan. Hey Michelle. Thanks for jumping on this call with me.

Hey Dunna, how's it going? It's good. How are you doing?

Doing well. Pretty good. How are you doing? Doing well.

Pretty good.

Good.

For anyone who's not familiar,

Jonathan and Michelle are Atlas Obscheras Places Editor.

So they look at all of the things that everyone sends in.

The good, the bad, the weird, I mean, the weird is obviously a given.

And they choose what they're going to focus on sort of researching, writing up, and getting

published.

We try and do as much as we can, but there's a process of selection as part of this and so

that's Jonathan Michelle.

So I'm super excited to ask about what you've been seeing lately.

Rochelle, why don't you go? The place that I would like to talk about is Alan Hills in Antarctica, which is a place that, like the landscape there sort of lends itself to these like fascinating scientific discoveries.

A geologist who spent decades leading a big research project in Antarctica called it

Meteorite Heaven. There are many that have been found there, but probably the crown jewel of Alan Hills is this small

potato shaped rock that was found there in 1984. Its official name is AH 84001, and it is the oldest Martian meteorite that we know of on Earth.

Scientists think that it formed like 4 billion years ago, maybe in a Martian volcano,

and then it made its way to Earth about 13,000 years ago where it was buried under the Antarctic

ice for a long time. And what makes this funny little meteorite

so interesting is that it's like sort of the center of a scientific controversy. In 1996, a team of NASA researchers published a paper where they pointed out some of these

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