Meteorite object
Name
Murchison

Recovery

Status
fall
Year
1969
Mass
100000.0 g

Geolocation

Body name
Earth
Place
near Murchison, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates
System
WGS84
Breccia
No
Category
chondritic
Group
carbonaceous chondrite
Class
CM
Chondrite petrologic type
2
Comments
classified as 2.4 by Rubin et al. (2007)
Oxides
Formula SiO2 TiO2 Al2O3 Cr2O3 FeO MnO MgO CaO Na2O K2O P2O5
Mass fraction (%) 29.07 0.13 2.15 0.48 22.39 0.2 19.94 1.89 0.24 0.04 0.23
Oxides comments
H2O+=8.95; H2O-=1.14; Fe(m)=0.13; FeS=7.24; C=1.85; other=3.73; total=99.80