Cranbourne Shire Historical Society  – The guest speaker for the  November 28, 2024 meeting is Sean Murphy. 7.30 pm start. He will talk about his book – The Cranbourne Meteorite.

Author and Berwick resident Sean Murphy’s The Cranbourne Meteorite tells the story between local colonial scientists and the British government for the ownership of Cranbourne No.1 fragment in the 1860s. Cranbourne meteorite has 13 fragments that are strewn across a 20-kilometre corridor from Pakenham to Langwarrin. A Casey resident for more than twenty years, Mr Murphy was always looking for a local topic to explore. In 2018, Sean stumbled across a podcast episode about a “Cranbourne Meteorite”. He did some investigating at the State Library and online databases to form his story. “There are a lot of meteorite-related books and things out there. But on this topic, but I was curious that no one had ever really written a book” he said.

Cranbourne Meteorite is known to a lot of people in this area because many years ago, council put up a display on the South Gippsland Highway in Cranbourne, hanging some fragments. The Cranbourne Meteorite also explores the stories around other fragments, meteorites in Australia, and fun geology and biology knowledge.

RSVP ESSENTIAL Please email Barry at pauline.freeman2@bigpond.com or Sue at susantobin@bigpond.com. Numbers attending will govern the location of the talk which will be either the Tooradin Hall or the Fishermans Cottage Museum, Foreshore Road, Tooradin. Free, All welcome.

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