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the meteorite that beat life to earth by 4.6 billion years and brought receipts.
means a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that fell in australia in 1969, packed with amino acids and organic molecules older than the sun.
from named for the town of murchison, victoria, australia, where witnesses saw a fireball split into pieces and rain rocks onto local fields and rooftops in september 1969.
fall dateseptember 28, 1969, in daylight
total massover 100 kilograms recovered from farmland
organic haulcontains over 70 amino acids, some not on earth
agepredates the solar system by billions of years