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        HOUSTON PALEO LUNCH BUNCH MEETING, NOVEMBER 11, 1997
               Are there fossils in Martian Meteorites?

Next meeting of the Houston Paleo Lunch Bunch will be on Tuesday,
November 11, 1997, at 11:30 AM, at the Spaghetti Warehouse- 901
Commerce at Travis, in Houston downtown. Lunch will be served around
12:00.

Lunch will be a choice of Spaghetti with meat sauce or Lasagna.
Payment for lunch must be made upon arrival at the Spaghetti
Warehouse (at the front entrance counter). You will receive a
blue (Lasagna) or red (spaghetti) token for your  meal. Please
do not send check. Other meals are also available.

Please call Rashel N. Rosen (713-754-6789) to make reservation ASAP.
If you must cancel, please call not later than Friday before the meeting.


Two speakers will talk about the Martian meteorites' fossil findings.
Both speakers are associated with the Johnson Space Center, NASA, under
the direction of Mr. David McKay. The speakers, their topics and
background are as follows:

Dr. Carlton C. Allen, Principal Scientist with Lockheed Martin Engineering
& Sciences Co. Received his Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences from the University
of Arizona. He will be speaking on bacteria in carbonates both from Italian
and Yellowstone Hot Springs. In particular he will be addressing the issue
of whether bacteria initiate carbonate precipitation and how long
"recognizable bacteria" last in a carbonate matrix.

Dr. Penny A. Morris Smith, Lecturer, University of Houston Downtown, NASA
Summer Faculty Fellow, and recent recipient of a Johnson Space Center
Director's Grant, received her Ph.D. in Paleontology from the University
of California, Berkeley. She will be addressing the issues of prokaryote
microenvironments as well as differentiating between in situ prokaryote
and those that have been introduced after initial sedimentary deposition
and lithification.

Plan to be there. But make sure to make a reservation ahead of time.