Chlorine 36, which is produced by the interaction of cosmic ray particles with nuclei in meteorites, was measured in seven iron meteorites and in one stone meteorite. The decay rates for chlorine-36 in iron meteorites varied between 6.5 and 20.2 dpm/kg. From these and from the concentration of stable spallation products, the exposure ages of these meteorites were calculated. In this way we found for six of the meteorites examined exposure ages close to 500 million years. Only for the Sikhote

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... n meteorite the quite different exposure age of 60 million years was measured. As this value is also definitely lower than that found by other authors for this meteorite, it is suggested that the Sikhote Alin had been part of a bigger meteorite which was broken into pieces about 60 million years ago by a collision with another meteorite.