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The Murchison meteorite is a meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria. It belongs to the carbonaceous chondrite class, a group of meteorites rich in organic compounds. Due to its mass (over 100 kg or 220 lb) and the fact that it was an observed fall, the Murchison meteorite is one of the most studied of all meteorites. [2]
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. The world was given only seven hours warning that it was being approached by ...
The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a meteorite had exploded in the sky about 40 miles northeast of Detroit on Tuesday night.
A meteorite crashed in the area of Mission, Texas, Wednesday night causing a loud boom that startled residents, authorities said. Meteorite crashes in South Texas causing startling boom ...
Presolar grains of the Murchison meteorite. In the 1960s, the noble gases neon [5] and xenon [6] were discovered to have unusual isotopic ratios in primitive meteorites; their origin and the type of matter that contained them was a mystery.
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Murchison meteorite, which fell in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia; The Murchison Murders which occurred in the 1930s in the Murchison region of Western Australia; HMAS Murchison, a warship of the Royal Australian Navy; In re Murchison, a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case during the Warren Court