The Allende meteorite fell at 1:05 AM on February 8, 1969. It is a carbonaceous chondrite, type CV3. Its mass was 2 metric tons.
The meteorite is famous for its complex carbon compounds (fullerenes (C60 and C70), fulleranes (C60HX), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzofluoranthene and corennulene - Becker L. and Bunch T. E. (1997)).
Ref.: Fisenko, A.V. and L.F. Semenova (1997) On the Selection of Chondrites for Studying Interstellar Diamond. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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