Murchison Meteorite (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Murchison Meteorite

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Zinner will be extracting presolar grains from a half-kilogram chunk of the Murchison meteorite, a primitive meteorite that fell to Earth near Murchison, Australia, in 1969 in a spectacular fireball.

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