Buckyball Google doodle gaga

Google is well known for its fancy replacement logos. And recently they honoured Harry Kroto, Rick Smalley et al for their discovery of buckminsterfullerene, which apparently happened 25 years ago. As far as I am aware, buckminsterfullerene was merely hinted at 25 years ago and was pretty much a theoretical construct until the early 1990s when Wolfgang Kraetschmer and colleagues published its mass spectrum in Nature, closely followed by Kroto et al (in my alma mater Chemical Communications, no less. We tried our best to beat Nature to print, but rigid pre-online publishing rules at the time prevented us from fast-tracking the Kroto paper, sadly). Anyway, Google has another doodle today, which gave the Daily Telegraph the opportunity to mention the Bucky Google again: "Last weekend Google marked the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the "buckyball", a spherical dome of exotic molecules of carbon, with a special moving design." So buckminsterfullerene is a spherical dome of exotic molecules of carbon? First, how can a dome be spherical? But more importantly, what on earth do they mean by exotic molecules of carbon? Such piffle would never have been published in Roger Highfield's day, I can tell you!