Two pieces from the Murchison meteorite that fell in central Victoria in 1969. This meteorite was very special because it contained many complex and organic molecules that can be the building blocks of life itself.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Murchison Meteorite
Two pieces from the Murchison meteorite that fell in central Victoria in 1969. This meteorite was very special because it contained many complex and organic molecules that can be the building blocks of life itself.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Crater Ponds
Some crater ponds on the edge of the Gondwana Stars Observatory at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History in Winton. These smooth craters are actually regmaglypts, sculpted hollows mimicking the regmaglypts in the surface of a meteorite that has been ablated by heat and friction entering Earth's atmosphere.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
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