A meteorite that fell near the Australian town of Murchison in 1969 was found to contain grains of stardust up to around 7 billion years old — the oldest solid material ever identified on Earth, formed long before the Sun or planets existed.

A meteorite that fell near the Australian town of Murchison in 1969 was found to contain grains of stardust up to around 7 billion years old — the oldest solid material ever identified on Earth, formed long before the Sun or planets existed.

body.single-post h1.entry-title,body.single-post .entry-title{text-transform:none!important;} A stone that fell from the sky over rural Victoria in 1969 turned out to contain something older than Earth, older than the Sun and older than every planet in the solar system. The Murchison meteorite, officially recorded by the Meteoritical Bulletin Database as an observed fall near Murchison, Australia, on September 28, 1969, is a carbonaceous chondri…