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From the following article:
A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt
Kenneth A. Farley, David Vokrouhlický, William F. Bottke & David Nesvorný
Nature 439, 295-297(19 January 2006)
doi:10.1038/nature04391
Figure 1
Two periods of elevated 3He flux, at
35 Myr ago (late Eocene) and
8 Myr ago (late Miocene), indicate intervals of enhanced accumulation rate of IDPs.
Figure 2
Concordant 3He data from two widely separated seafloor sites support a global increase in IDP flux at 8.2 Myr ago that can be attributed to the asteroid collision that produced the Veritas family.
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