Murchison fireball and meteorite fall over Victoria

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A specimen of the Murchison meteorite in a museum display
A piece of the Murchison meteorite that fell in Victoria in 1969 Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Just before 11 a.m. a fireball broke apart over Murchison, Victoria, and residents heard a series of loud booms. They gathered fragments of a rare carbonaceous meteorite, in which scientists reported extraterrestrial amino acids in Nature in 1970.

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  1. PressLooking back on the Murchison meteorite (opens in a new tab)Shepparton News (John Lewis) / 2019-09-27
  2. PressSept. 28, 1969: The Murchison Meteorite explodes over Australia (opens in a new tab)Astronomy magazine
  3. OtherEvidence for Extraterrestrial Amino-acids and Hydrocarbons in the Murchison Meteorite (opens in a new tab)Nature (Kvenvolden et al., vol. 228) / 1970-12

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