Name: MURCHISON CM2
Class: carbonaceous chondrite (Mighei group, Type 2), breccicated, S1/2
Country: Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Date: Fall: 1969, September 28 (1058 hrs)
TKW: 100 kg approx.
Dimensions: 35.7 x 25.2 x 21.7 mm max.

The Murchison Meteorite fell on a clear Sunday morning shortly before 11:00 a.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time on September 28, 1969, and a smell of alcohol remained in the air for hours. This was an extremely important fall of a carbonaceous chondrite type 2 (CM2) and was widely observed in spite of bright daylight. This meteorite is suspected to be of cometary origin. More than 92 amino acids, concidered as the 'building blocks of life', including glysine, valine, alanine, proline, aspartic and glutamic acid, were found in this remarkable meteorite. Only 19 of these amino acids are found on Earth. At the SPIE conference in San Diego, Richard Hoover from the Marshall Space Flight Centre claimed that he had found possible microfossils in the Murchison meteorite!

Is this the 'Genisis Stone'?

This Meteorite is a MUST for every collection, and we have got the Permit to legally export these unique pieces from Australia!

This is a one-of-a-kind flight orientated MUSEUM PIECE with complete Fusion Crust and some Lipping ! Weight: 19.59 g

Radiometric dating of the meteorite itself suggests an age of about 4.5 billion years, suggesting it was formed at the very beginning of the Solar System, which makes it among the oldest material known to exist ( the oldest rocks on Earth being only half its age!).

We hope you will enjoy owning this unique piece of our Solar System, your own Space Traveler, from way out there.