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Letter: More than microbial DNA on asteroid sample?

Published 23 December 2024

From Andrew Summers, East Coker, Somerset, UK

My only surprise was that the researchers looking down their microscope at asteroid rock samples only saw terrestrial bacterial contamination and not golden retriever dog hair, which permeates the entire universe (30 November, p 15).

Issue no. 3523 published 28 December 2024

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