Case file · Cosmic event
Allende meteorite fall, Chihuahua
In the early hours of 8 February 1969 a brilliant fireball burst over Chihuahua and scattered more than two tonnes of stones around Pueblito de Allende, the largest carbonaceous chondrite fall ever found.
1969 CE · 26.97, -105.32 · status: official
The account
Arriving months before Apollo 11, the stones went straight to laboratories prepared for Moon rock. Their white calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions are among the oldest solids in the Solar System, about 4.57 billion years old, and some carry traces of presolar stardust.