* Astronomy

A meteorite worth a million dollars, once at the centre of an ownership dispute, has been stolen from a security business.
The space rock, known as the Binya Meteorite, was taken from a cabinet in the office of professional investigators Austrace in Newcastle on Sunday night.
The theft of the 11kg space debris follows a nasty dispute between its original owners and the Insolvency and Trustee Service of Australia before it was sold to a private collector in 2004.
The meteorite, which is believed to have come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, was discovered in April 1, 1981 by Terry and Trish Myers when it landed on their wheat farm at Binya, in southwest New South Wales. (34° 14'S, 146° 23'E)
The meteorite, valued at $1 million by US collectors in 1996, was used as a doorstop before its value was discovered.

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