February 1999

The Frass Meteorite, the first identified living meteorite, was found in the early 1970's on a ranch near the town of Canadian, Texas.  This meteorite has been stored for most of this time, because it was not thought to be important.  Upon the discovery of possible life in the Martian meteorite ALH84001, I began a journey to look into the mysteries of the Frass Meteorite, since I had long since suspected that it came from Mars.  Even though I have had the rock for almost thirty years, I had never taken a sample or harmed the rock in any way.   Upon hearing of the ALH84001 results, I did take a sample and began looking at the contents of the rock and soon learned that it was literally full of the dead bodies (see above) of ancient creatures that once lived on the planet Mars. 

The evidence now shows that the majority of the Frass rock was created 13 million years ago, when a side vent flow of a slowly dying Martian volcano, moved across a sandy bed, the result of an ancient pool or ocean.  Laying in this sand was the red colored particles that represent a similar flow from the same volcano that had occurred about 36 million years before.  This material seems to have been on the surface it entire life and has been wet.  Some of these red rocks were surrounded by the later volcanic flow and captured in the vesicles of the rock and some of the red rock stuck to the hot gray rock as it flowed across this old water system.  In those 36 million years, about 1/8 inch of Martian dust was deposited and clearly shows between the two layers of the rock. This dust is butterscotch colored, the same as Martian dust.  It is also magnetic.  

Also in those vesicles is a varied sample of everything that had once walked or crawled or squirmed or just lived there.  With little atmosphere to decompose their tiny bodies, they are all perfectly preserved after these millions of years.  The red rock has much smaller vesicles, and I now believe may represent a volcanic flow that occurred while Mars still had its atmosphere and an ocean or at least lakes.  It is clear the red rock has been wet, but only in a very still pool, because the edges of the particles are not rounded.

Life did evolve on Mars, much as it did on Earth.  I don't think that Mars ever really had the giant oceans like on Earth, so on Mars, the volcanoes played the role of providing large bodies of water for life to evolve.  Also, I think Mars life probably developed more along the lines of chemical energy from the volcanoes rather than most of the energy coming from sunlight, like on Earth.  This may be the reason that the Viking life experiments were so puzzling.  If most of the life on Mars evolved around chemical energies and Earth life revolved mostly around energies from light, we may not have much of a problem to worry about when bringing Mars life to Earth or vice versa.  If we look at the evidence, Mars life has probably been transported to Earth via meteorites on many occasions in the billions of years of the history of the Earth.  The Frass Meteorite now seems to make it clear that life can make the trip from planet to planet and it probably means that life is very common in our solar system.   For more information on my infinite cosmos model, see micomike's cosmology page.

I have spent over three years of my life and a great deal of money in the pursuit of the study of this valuable rock.  In April of the year 2000, my only son Aaron died in a freak accident which probably would not have occurred had anyone helped me bring the life of Mars to the people of the planet Earth.   Every stumbling block has been placed in my way.  It has taken me over two years to get the first  review of the rock and so this entire process has slowly but completely drained my resources. I now believe a conspiracy has been committed against me, in an effort to hide the life of Mars.  Everyone that has promised to help me has broken their promise.  I can not sell this rock or any portion of it, since it is a symbol to me that God answers prayers and that miracles still happen.   Thus, I have decided to do my best to bring all of the results of the Frass rock to all the people of the world without cost.  But the reality is there are always costs involved in anything that we do.   So to alleviate my situation, all I am requesting is a small license agreement from those who would benefit from information about Mars that is in my possession.  I will do my best to keep my web sites totally open (although most have now been closed down for lack of funds) without charge to all that want to come.  But as more people find out about my sites, I will have to purchase more access to the Internet.  So all I am asking is $20 per year for all the honest people that appreciate the fact that I am trying to make this rock available to the whole world as a gift from God.  Since He made me the curator, I am only asking that you help me support myself and the study of the Frass Meteorite.  If you are willing to help, then please notify my friend Lynn at icp@xit.net and he will tell you of our needs.   TheGravityStore is no longer up, due to lack of funds.  As an alternative, have me come speak before your group and you will get to see some of the creatures of Mars up close and personal.  My greatest desire is to share the life of Mars with the people of this planet and I can't understand why so many oppose this noble goal.

Your friend.