The Alais meteorite (also spelled Allais) is the first carbonaceous chondrite meteorite identified.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent academic sources including peer-reviewed papers and a publisher-affiliated blog, all consistent with the claim. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Alais meteorite (wikipedia)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.12351 (corroboration)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01200-8 (corroboration)
- https://cambridgeblog.org/2021/06/jean-baptiste-biot-founder-of-the-scientific-study-of-meteorites/ (corroboration)