SYDNEY: Previously unknown organic molecules have been discovered in a 100 kg meteorite that hit Australia in 1969, suggesting that our early Solar System contained a soup of highly complex organic chemistry long before life appeared.

In a recent study scientists analysed the Murchison meteorite, which landed in Murchison near Melbourne, Australia, in 1969.

The meteor is thought to have originated in the early days of our Solar System, perhaps even before the Sun formed around four and a half billion years ago.

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