Carbon find at meteorite site

A form of carbon previously only made in the laboratory has been discovered for the first time in nature. Researchers from the University of Hawaii discovered fullerenes in fragments of a meteorite that produced a crater near Sudbury in Ontario, Canada. Fullerenes are soccer-ball shaped molecules made of 60 or more atoms of pure carbon. They are named after the geodesic dome designer, Buckminster Fuller, and were first discovered in the lab in 1985.