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Organic Analysis of the Pueblito de Allende Meteorite

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It appears unlikely that the organic material detected in the meteorite that fell in Mexico last year can have been introduced by contamination.

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  1. McDonnel Research Laboratories, McDonnel Douglas Corporation, St Louis, Missouri, 63166

    RAM L. LEVY, CLARENCE J. WOLF & MICHAEL A. GRAYSON

  2. Departments of Biophysical Sciences and Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 77004

    J. GILBERT, E. GELPI, W. S. UPDEGROVE, A. ZLATKIS & J. ORO'

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LEVY, R., WOLF, C., GRAYSON, M. et al. Organic Analysis of the Pueblito de Allende Meteorite. Nature 227, 148–150 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227148a0

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