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BETWEEN the years 1928 and 1931 several papers on the age of iron meteorites were published, based on analyses of their helium and uranium content1. The last paper gave age values for twenty-two iron meteorites which were fairly evenly spread over periods ranging from 100 to 2,800 million years.
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ARROL, W., JACOBI, R. & PANETH, F. METEORITES AND THE AGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Nature 149, 235–238 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149235a0
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