Abstract
The year 1969 was exceptional for research on extraterrestrial samples. On 8 February, the Allende meteorite fell. The Ca, Al-rich inclusions in this meteorite are the oldest objects known to date, preserving the signatures of the primordial solar nebula from which the planets formed. Analysis of samples from this meteorite prepared laboratories worldwide for the study of lunar samples brought back to Earth in July of the same year. On 28 September 1969, the Murchison meteorite was observed to fall in Australia, providing the first convincing evidence of amino acids of extraterrestrial origin. Also in the same year, a Japanese expedition recovered nine dark rocks, later identified as meteorites, from the ice fields of Antarctica.
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