Allende meteorite (Pueblito de Allende meteorite; Qutrixpileo meteorite [NHM cat.]), Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico
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)).
References:
American Mineralogist (1971): 56: 2053.
El Goresy, A., Nagel, K., Dominik, B., and Ramdohr, P. (1977) Fremdlinge: Potential Presolar Material in Ca, Al rich inclusions of Allende, Meteoritics, vol 12, pp 215-216.
Becker L. and Bunch T. E. (1997).
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.
Imai, H. and Yurimoto, H. (2000).
Ma, C., Beckett, J.R., and Rossman, G.R. (2009) Allendeite and Hexamolybdenum: Two New Ultra-Refractory Minerals in Allende and Two Missing Links, 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2009.
Lunar and Planetary Sceince XV, p 699-700 (abstract).
www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2002/pdf/5053.pdf.
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Map Reference: 26°58'N , 105°19'W
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