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The perfect meteorite. - Murchison Australia

The perfect meteorite. - Murchison Australia The Murchison Meteorite.

""A perfect fragment of the rarest and oldest meteorite recorded to hit earth.
Older than religion and the entire soler system. A True extraterrestrial rock containing 86 plus life building amino acids found so far. Packed full of blue crystal called hibonites (or nano diamonds) which formed from the explosive birth and violent growth of our sun..
Recently in a 2018 study, These hibonites are likely among the first minerals to have formed in the early soler system.
This is the most intensely studied meteorite on earth. Landing in 1969 and still studied to this day 49 years later.

This fragment was originally located on the rear of the incoming meteorite during the burn up stage on entry .
The heavily Blue/Green/Gold face is still part of the original mantle.
This is the only murchison example to have this kind of coloring to the entire surrounding fusion crust . During the burn up, this piece broke off,

(still containing evidence of the break up which can be seen in this video) .

After breaking off, it became (what would have been) the brightest part of the burning tail, lighting up the night skies, burning the entire piece and preserving it in a perfect multi coloured fusion crust without any cracking.
Bluing is super rare on a fusion crust but multiple colors is exceptionally rare.. Out of all pieces to come from the Murchison fall, this particular piece is the most desirable of them all. A Collectors dream!! None of which have this kind of coloring to the fusion crust Weighing in at 1.1kg, It is the best naturally preserved example.


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Genetic Building Blocks From Space

More evidence that asteroids may have led to the emergence of life on earth.



Astrobiologist announced they had found a key component of genetic material within a meteorite. The discovery supports the idea that asteroid bombardment four billion years ago may have jump-started the emergence of life.

Zita Martins of Imperial College London and her colleagues identified the organic molecules in the 4.6-billion-year-old Mur­chison meteorite, a carbon-rich rock that fell to Earth in Australia in 1969. Earlier researchers had detected subunits of DNA and RNA, called nucleobases, in the meteor­ite. But nobody could be sure whether the nucleobases were extraterrestrial or were simply soil contaminants.

Martins found the answer by extracting two molecules from the meteorite: uracil, a nucleobase found in RNA, and xanthine, an intermediate in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. She then compared the ratio of the two isotopes of carbon (carbon 13 and carbon 12) in them and found that the heavier carbon 13 predominated and matched the ratio found in carbon-containing chemicals created in space. By contrast, soil samples from the meteorite’s fall site contained uracil with more carbon 12.

“This is the first time anybody has proved that nucleobases in a meteorite are extraterrestrial,” Martins says. The results imply that prebiotic chemistry may be bubbling up in other parts of the cosmos too. “Meteorites and comets bombarded other planets,” Martins says. “So it means that the building blocks of life were delivered to other points in our solar system. If these building blocks were synthesized in space, they could be widespread throughout the universe.


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