Shooting Star Wish Comes True For This Indian Scientist by Aravindan Neelakandan - Jun 4, 2021 01:08 PM An artist's impression of the formation of the solar system (NASA) Snapshot It was in the Allende meteorite that Chaitanya Giri and his colleagues had been searching for graphene. But why graphene? Here is an interesting story. Making a wish on seeing a shooting star and believing it will come true is a popular custom â perhaps a superstition, yet harmless. But for Dr Chaitanya Giri and his co-workers â a wish on a shooting star actually came true. It was a wish for a form of carbon â graphene.