>>The door flung open and a bloke came in carrying a plastic bag, all blown up ,” he remembers.

“I opened it up and I got the smell of all these very complex organic compounds— an incredible potpourri of all the smells that you ever imagined.

“I looked inside and there was this black, coaly looking material and I said, ‘My god, it’s a carbonaceous chondrite!’<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-02/murchison-meteorite-50th-anniversary-1969-science-geology/11528644

PermeateFree said:

>>The door flung open and a bloke came in carrying a plastic bag, all blown up ,” he remembers.

“I opened it up and I got the smell of all these very complex organic compounds— an incredible potpourri of all the smells that you ever imagined.

“I looked inside and there was this black, coaly looking material and I said, ‘My god, it’s a carbonaceous chondrite!’<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-02/murchison-meteorite-50th-anniversary-1969-science-geology/11528644

Well I’m glad some folks are excited by it

dv said:

PermeateFree said:

>>The door flung open and a bloke came in carrying a plastic bag, all blown up ,” he remembers.

“I opened it up and I got the smell of all these very complex organic compounds— an incredible potpourri of all the smells that you ever imagined.

“I looked inside and there was this black, coaly looking material and I said, ‘My god, it’s a carbonaceous chondrite!’<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-02/murchison-meteorite-50th-anniversary-1969-science-geology/11528644

Well I’m glad some folks are excited by it

Well if you bothered to read it, you might learn about the why and when.

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

PermeateFree said:

>>The door flung open and a bloke came in carrying a plastic bag, all blown up ,” he remembers.

“I opened it up and I got the smell of all these very complex organic compounds— an incredible potpourri of all the smells that you ever imagined.

“I looked inside and there was this black, coaly looking material and I said, ‘My god, it’s a carbonaceous chondrite!’<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-02/murchison-meteorite-50th-anniversary-1969-science-geology/11528644

Well I’m glad some folks are excited by it

Well if you bothered to read it, you might learn about the why and when.

I mean I’m excited too but I thought it was just me

dv said:

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

Well I’m glad some folks are excited by it

Well if you bothered to read it, you might learn about the why and when.

I mean I’m excited too but I thought it was just me

Your enthusiasm is very catching, just like the plague.

Oh, Murchison. Yes it is. Very famous.

Not just a carbonaceous chondrite, which is rather common these days, but IIRC a C1 carbonaceous chondrite – the oldest type of meteorite and the least modified by heat + outgassing.

More famous than anything else about Murchison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite

Kvenvolden, Keith A.; Lawless, James; Pering, Katherine; Peterson, Etta; Flores, Jose; Ponnamperuma, Cyril; Kaplan, Isaac R.; Moore, Carleton (1970). “Evidence for extraterrestrial amino-acids and hydrocarbons in the Murchison meteorite”. Nature. 228 (5275): 923–926.

Matson, John (15 February 2010). “Meteorite That Fell in 1969 Still Revealing Secrets of the Early Solar System”. Scientific American.

15,500 articles about it on Scholar Google.