On 28 September 1969, a fireball broke apart over a small Victorian farming town called Murchison and scattered black, carbon-rich rocks across the paddocks — and those rocks turned out to contain grains of stardust formed 7 billion years ago, older than the Sun, older than Earth, and the oldest solid material any human has ever held

The Murchison meteorite preserved presolar silicon carbide grains that formed before the Sun, with some dated to roughly 7 billion years old. The post On 28 September 1969, a fireball broke apart over a small Victorian farming town called Murchison and scattered black, carbon-rich rocks across the paddocks — and those rocks turned out to contain grains of stardust formed 7 billion years ago, older than the Sun, older than Earth, and the oldest solid material any human has ever held appeared firs