Because it looks like those terrible geodesic domes of my late beloved '60s, they're called "buckyballs." This evidence was used to suggest that at the end of the Permian, 250 million years ago, a comet hit us.
Son llamadas "buckyesferas". Con esta evidencia se sugirió que al final del Pérmico, hace 250 millones de años, nos impactó un cometa.