Methane Detection? Options

[silylene]

A new, fairly short paper currently in press with Icarus:

Methane on Mars: A product of H2O photolysis in the presence of CO
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 January 2006
Akiva Bar-Nun and Vasili Dimitrov
Abstract

I hypothesized this possibility immediately after the methane detection was announced in the Martian atmosphere, in posts on SDC, complete with literature citations...my posts on "photoreductive processes to form CH4". I wonder if I will be cited?

see this thread http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...topic=1671&st=0

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

I hypothesized this possibility immediately after the methane detection was announced in the Martian atmosphere, in posts on SDC, complete with literature citations...my posts on "photoreductive processes to form CH4".  I wonder if I will be cited?

You're making the assumption that Bar-Nun and Dimitrov are under an obligation to read the myriad online newsgroups, blogs, discussion forums, etc. Since normal scientific discourse happens through science conferences and peer-reviewed publication, you might fare better with proper credit if you also presented your ideas in those places.

This post has been edited by AlexBlackwell: Jan 26 2006, 08:09 PM

[silylene]

You're making the assumption that Bar-Nun and Dimitrov are under an obligation to read the myriad online newsgroups, blogs, discussion forums, etc.  Since normal scientific discourse happens through science conferences and peer-reviewed publication, you might fare better with proper credit if you also presented your ideas in those places.

agreed! I am just curious.

[deglr6328]

I KNEW you were on to something good there silylene!

[silylene]

I KNEW you were on to something good there silylene! 

I ought to be, half of my thesis and much of the R&D I direct is in the field of photochemistry!

[Rob Pinnegar]

There's probably room here for coming up with something analogous to the "John Smith, personal communication" type of reference you often see in published literature.

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

From the March 2006 issue of Geology:

Interglacial clathrate destabilization on Mars: Possible contributing source of its atmospheric methane
Olga Prieto-Ballesteros, et al.
Geology 34, 149–152 (2006).
Abstract

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

From the March-April 2006 issue of American Scientist:

Science Observer
Life on Mars?
by Martin Baucom
Geological and biological processes observed on Earth provide hunky-dory explanations for methane on Mars.
See http://www.americanscientist.org/template/...l/assetid/49613