To: decimon
and they know this minute meteor is 4.5 billion years how?
To: ducttape45
It had a receipt from Walmart stuck to it that was dated 3/13/4,512,003,473 BC
To: ducttape45
Probably based on the age of Earth, if it's one of the building blocks that made the planets.
I saw a program on Science recently that talked about the astroids that orbit Jupiter. Sometimes they get so close to Jupiter that Jupiter bounces them out of its atmosphere and when that happens, they may have a new orbit that can take them directly to Earth.
5 posted on
04/06/2011 1:55:32 PM PDT by
DallasDeb
To: ducttape45
They know because the rock pegged out the 6K limit of their age meter.
8 posted on
04/06/2011 2:00:50 PM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: ducttape45
and they know this minute meteor is 4.5 billion years how?A variety of radioistope decay techniques, including Samarium and other elements.
11 posted on
04/06/2011 2:04:19 PM PDT by
Strategerist
(There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
To: ducttape45
Probably from Uranium-238, it has a half-life of 4.468 billion years.
15 posted on
04/06/2011 2:17:06 PM PDT by
jonsie
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