Alien life may be able to survive a trip to Earth

Fossilzed microscopic life-forms were sent into space inside an artifical meteorite. The meteorite is the size of a baseball and was sent to test whether biological material could survive the journey to space and back. The scientist who did this say that we could have alien origins. The meteroite was made of stone from the Orkney islands in Scotland. It contained microbes. It was sent in the European Space Agency's Foton M3, that was launched by the Kazakahstan's Bailkonur Cosmodrome, which was carrying 43 other experiments. It landed in Kazakhstan after orbiting the planet for 12 days. The little rock that landed has some biological compounds that survived. This may lead to sending other simple organisms to space via meteorites.