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AS recently as in 1956 the late Prof. F. A. Paneth, an authority on meteorite investigations, published a paper under the above heading1, in which he wrote: “iron and stone meteorites did not fall before the late Quaternary”.
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PETTERSSON, H. Frequency of Meteorite Falls throughout the Ages. Nature 183, 1114 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831114a0
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