"Ages" of the Sikhote Alin Iron Meteorite
- 22 February 1963
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 139 (3556), 752-753
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3556.752
Abstract
Measurements of the potassium and argon content of the Sikhote Alin iron meteorite, by activation analysis, enable a potassium-argon "age" of 1.7 x 109 years to be calculated. Such an age is vastly different from all the ages previously measured for iron meteorites.Keywords
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