Identity area
Reference code
Hoyle/Box 23/2/58
Unique identifier
GB 275 Hoyle/Box 23/2/58
Title
Autograph letter, signed, from Sir John Charnley (Mere, Knutsford, Cheshire) to FH
Date(s)
- 30 Aug 1978 (Creation)
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Item
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1p paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Wishes to ask FH how he thinks that viruses or other living matter from space could manage to survive the exceedingly high temperatures of a meteorite entering the earth's atmosphere. To him, 'all this seems very unlikely'.