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Fossil tracks in several silicate crystals present in the dark phases of gas-rich meteorites (Kapoeta and others) show that they were irradiated at low temperatures as individuals in a very low density atmosphere by corpuscular radiation of cosmic composition.
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LAL, D., RAJAN, R. Observations on Space Irradiation of Individual Crystals of Gas-rich Meteorites. Nature 223, 269–271 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223269a0
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