[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Murchison - 40th Anniversary

From: Zelimir Gabelica <Zelimir.Gabelica_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:58:07 +0200
Message-ID: <200909281258.n8SCwZ1Q003103_at_smtpmul2.univ-mulhouse.fr>

Thanks Jeff for this very significant reminder and for the link!
Murchison is by all means one of the most
fascinating meteorites and undoubtedly still has
a lot of mysteries hidden in its depths, waiting at being solved some day.

40th birthday totally forgotten ?
Not really....
We, a bunch of 9 people far from Murchison spot,
did remember to celebrate that famous meteorite
fall birthday by bringing a modest contribution
to that issue ("Murch's" extraterrestrial
contents) through sending to a prestigious
journal a couple of days ago a (very serious) manuscript entitled:

"Murchison, 40 years later: unprecedented
molecular diversity of extraterrestrial organic
matter unraveled by non-targeted ultrahigh
resolution molecular analysis" (contribution from
4 different European research groups)

It was sent so that it reaches the editing
staff....today, exactly 40 years after Murchison fell!

Sorry for the lack of details but you might
understand we wish the contents to remain
confidential for obvious reasons (original findings, exclusivity....) for now.
Hopefully more clues on our paper contents could
be disclosed in the near future, thus after it is
(possibly) officially accepted for publication.

My best to all,

Zelimir

At 12:34 28/09/2009, Jeff Kuyken wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>On this day 40 years ago in 1969, one of the
>most famous meteorites fell to Earth in a
>spectacular fashion. It was the beautiful
>Murchison CM2 meteorite which has been the
>subject of much scientific interest over the
>last four decades. It's this meteorite which
>sparked much interest in the contained amino
>acids and the burgeoning theories of meteorites seeding life on Earth.
>
>Happy Birthday Murchison.
>
>http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=murchison+meteorite
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jeff Kuyken
>Meteorites Australia
>www.meteorites.com.au
>Director - I.M.C.A. Inc.
>www.imca.cc
>
>
>P.S. A friend of mine was in Murchison today and
>no one had any idea it was the 40th Anniversary
>even though there was a big celebration for the 30th! ;-)
>
>
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Prof. Zelimir Gabelica
Universit? de Haute Alsace
ENSCMu, Lab. GSEC,
3, Rue A. Werner,
F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France
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Received on Mon 28 Sep 2009 08:58:07 AM PDT