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The Murchison meteorite.

The Murchison meteorite is the best studied object among the carbonaceous meteorites. More than 70 different amino acids, nucleobases, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and many other carbon compounds have been identified in Murchison.
Photo from Co-I Pascale Ehrenfreund.