The Allende Meteorite fall, the most important stoney meteorite shower on record, was first seen in the early morning of February 8, 1969 as a fireball descending towards the southern Chihuahuan ...

The Allende meteorite, which arrived on our planet on February 8, 1969 near the village of Pueblito de Allende in Mexico, was about the size of a car before it hit our atmosphere and exploded into ...

McKeegan believes that while the Allende meteorite — which landed in Mexico in a shower of stones in 1969 — came from the asteroid belt, the CAIs inside of it probably did not originate there.

Scientists from Russia and Germany studied the molecular composition of carbonaceous chondrites – the insoluble organic matter of the Murchison and Allende meteorites This was done in an attempt ...