The Rock From Mars (57 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Award-winning journalist K
ATHY
S
AWYER
covered space science and technology for
The Washington Post
for nearly two decades, beginning in 1986 with the
Challenger
accident, which killed seven astronauts. Her work has also been published in magazines such as
National Geographic
and
Astronomy.
A native of Nashville, she began her career as a feature writer at the
Tennessean
newspaper there. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, she is the recipient of honors including the National Headliner Award for Best Domestic News Reporting for coverage of the war in Vietnam and other subjects, and the David N. Schramm Award for journalism in the field of high-energy astrophysics, given by the American Astronomical Society.

Copyright © 2006 by Kathy Sawyer

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Sawyer, Kathy.

The rock from Mars: a detective story on two planets / Kathy Sawyer

p.                  cm.

1.         Life on other planets.                  2.         Meteorites.                  3.         Mars probes.                  4.         Mars (Planet)                  I.         Title.

QB54.S263 2006                                                      576.8'39—dc22                                                      2005046560

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