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| Basic information | Name: Murchison This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1969 Country: Australia Mass:  100 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 625 approved meteorites classified as CM2. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CM chondrites, and CM-CO clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 48:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF MURCHISON STONE METEORITE SHOWER, AUSTRALIA Name: MURCHISON The place of fall or discovery: Near Murchison, Victoria, Australia; φ = 36'37'S, λ = 145°12'E . Date of fall or discovery: FALL, September 28,1969,between 10h45m and 11 h 00m L.T. Class and type: STONE, carbonaceous chondrite, type II or III. Number of individual specimens: Meteorite shower on an area over 5 square miles. Total weight: About 4 ½ kg; largest mass weights 680.2 g. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: A fireball was seen. It was parted into three pieces before its disappearing. After that a cloud of smoke was seen and 30 seconds later a tremor was heard. Some of the specimens were found on a road and the largest one weighing 680 g came through a roof and fell in the hay. Source: A telegram October 9, 1969 and the information reports No. 779, 780, 783, 785 and 787 of the Center for Short-lived Phenomena, Cambridge, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 48, Moscow (1969) reprinted Meteoritics 5, 85-109 (1970)
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Strewnfield map:  Murchison_strewfield.kmzStatistics: This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites from Victoria, Australia This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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