Mocs vs Allende

Mocs is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell in 1882 near Mocs, in territory now belonging to Romania. The event produced a broad shower from which hundreds of individual stones were reportedly recovered, making it a well-represented historic fall. Its L classification denotes an ordinary chondrite group with relatively low total iron, while type 6 records substantial thermal metamorphism that recry...

The Allende meteorite is a CV3 carbonaceous chondrite that fell over the Mexican state of Chihuahua in February 1969. It contains calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, refractory components that formed during the earliest stages of the Solar System and rank among its oldest dated solid materials. The large amount of recovered material has made Allende an important scientific reference for studying pla...