Geology Museum of the National University of Mexico

A historic geology museum that displays the Allende meteorite, which showered northern Mexico in 1969.

Key facts

Where

Mexico City, Mexico

Kind

University collection

Visiting

Public gallery or display at a university

The Museum of Geology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico occupies an elegant early 20th-century building in the Santa María la Ribera district of Mexico City. Its galleries of minerals, rocks and fossils include meteorites from Mexico.

Among them is Allende, the carbonaceous chondrite that fell as a shower of stones over the state of Chihuahua on 8 February 1969. More than two tonnes were collected, making it the largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found. Its white inclusions, rich in calcium and aluminium, are among the oldest solids in the Solar System, about 4,567 million years old.

Highlights

• Allende fell 1969 CV3

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Opening times, what is on display and access to research collections change over time, so check with the institution before you visit.