The meteorite contains a number of elements in similar proportions to the Solar System in its primordial state.

[1] The meteorite was analysed by Louis Jacques Thénard, who published a study in 1807, showing that it had a high carbon content.

[2] It was initially doubted that the fragments were of non-terrestrial origins as their attributes were markedly different to existing meteorites.

[1] As an early fall (soon after the consensus that meteorites were real, extraterrestrial phenomenon), Alais has largely been dispersed.

[8] A fragment, weighing 39.3 g (1.39 oz) is held by the National Museum of Natural History, France.