More About Murchison Meteorite

We can always learn more about Murchison meteorite (Mm), and the many studies completed on Mm over the last 50 years provide the ground work for further research.

In April last year, a Carbonaceous Chondrite meteor, the same rare type as Mm showered down on a little village in Costa Rica (which is south of Mexico and north of Panama and South America). A short film about the incident released recently, connects this event to our Murchison meteorite and gives even more insight to Mm. You will also see a shot of our main street, anniversary stamp, Philipp Heck our guest speaker when we celebrated the 50^th anniversary last year and a familiar photo of the Gillick family collection of Mm.

Mrs. Emily Gillick with son Kim looking at Murchison meteorite fragments on the floor of the Murchison Post Office after collecting them in 1969

The following link will show you the film clip.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/watch-space-rocks-impacted-costa-rican-village-more-ways-one

The material from this fresh meteorite that showered over the village of Aguas Zarcas will provide more samples of carbonaceous chondrite for the scientists to study and build on the volumes of knowledge gained from our own world-famous Murchison meteorite.

Kay Ball, President, Murchison & District Historical Society