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
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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