NASA: Planet Formed 13 Billion Years Ago

Yahoo! News ^ | 7/10/03 | Deborah Zabarenko - Reuters

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Primeval Planet: Oldest Known World Conjures Prospect of Ancient Life
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 02:00 pm ET
10 July 2003
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/oldest_planet_030710-1.html

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5600 years is nothing. It's less than a second in "man years".

[SunkenCiv]

It's a three year old topic. :')

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Note: this is a 2003 topic!

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The View from Methuselah -- Deep within the M4 globular cluster, the oldest known planet orbits a millisecond pulsar and its white dwarf companion. Dubbed "Methuselah" by astronomers, this planet is probably only a billion years younger than the universe itself. Here we see this ancient world from one of its moons. To the top left of the planet are its pair of tiny elderly parent stars. To the far left, the center of the M4 cluster looms like a gigantic swarm of bees.

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