Bringing you one of the legendary space mystery stories that got the whole world buzzing. It's about a meteorite called 'Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001)'. **1. It's not just a regular rock**

At first glance, it looks like Pebble 1 that you might kick on the street, but its specs are insane. Origin: Mars Age: About 4 billion years old (formed in the early days of Mars) Arrival on Earth: Crash-landed in Antarctica about 13,000 years ago Discovery: Picked up (joop-joop) in 1984 by a US meteorite exploration team in Allan Hills, Antarctica (hence the name ALH84001) To summarize this rock's story: About 16 million years ago, a massive meteor crashed into Mars, and the impact flung this fragment out into space. It floated around the solar system and somehow landed *exactly* on Earth, specifically in Antarctica. The odds are absolutely legendary.

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**2. 1996, plastered all over news headlines worldwide** They thought it was just a Martian rock, but in 1996, NASA and scientists cracked it open and looked through a microscope, where they spotted a weird structure. **"Dude, isn't this like a fossilized bacterium inside??"**

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This picture came out, and chaos ensued. See those wiggly, worm-like things? Scientists **claimed they were 'fossils of Martian bacteria.'** Even US President Bill Clinton came out in public to talk about it. He said, **"This could change our view of the universe,"** yep. Everyone went into hyped-up mode, thinking they had found the first evidence of extraterrestrial life in human history.