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The time of impact of a meteorite at Lake Acraman is estimatedto have been around 600 million years ago, when materials werebeing deposited in the Bunyeroo Formation, not 1 billion yearsago as stated in "Meteorite scenario pieced together" (ThisWeek in Science, 11 July, p. 139).