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
Meteorite type
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 $SiO_{2}$ $TiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $Cr_{2}O_{3}$ $FeO$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $P_{2}O_{5}$
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