Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Now, an instrument that reveals age of meteorites

Researchers validated the instrument - a laser ablation resonance ionisation mass spectrometer - by dating a rock from Mars: the meteorite Zagami, which formed about 180 million years ago, and fell to Earth in 1962.



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