Buckminster Fullerene and Interstellar Extinction

Most of over 500 Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) can not be assigned to any carrier. Only the infrared DIBs at 9348-9632 Å are known to be absorption lines of the buckminster fullerene cation C60+. We show that equivalent width of the 9577 Å DIB is correlated with the bump area on the ultraviolet extinction curve and with interstellar reddening E(B-V). Physical conditions must be similar for forming dust particles responsible for the UV-bump and forming C60+.