Solar system may be 2 million years older than thought.
FTA: Researchers studying bits of a meteorite discovered that the space rock was 4.5682 billion years old, predating previous estimates of the solar system's age by up to 1.9 million years.
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Actually, I doubt many people think about millions of years when the subject is in the billions.
*** Here is a link to a new article which connects to the finally published scientific report.
Finally the article in Nature has appeared. Here is a link and a differrent way of describing the same report.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nature.com/news/2010/100822/full/news.2010.423.html