The Alais meteorite contains organic compounds.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent academic sources (Springer, Nature Communications Chemistry, Wiley/Meteoritics and Planetary Science, David Darling's encyclopedia) confirm Berzelius's 1834 extraction of carbonaceous/organic compounds from the Alais meteorite, one of the earliest documented cases of extraterrestrial organic matter.
Sources
- Alais meteorite (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.12351 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01200-8 (nature.com)
- https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/Alais.html (daviddarling.info)
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-2115-6_26 (link.springer.com)