According to rock dating, the solar system is approcimately_____ years old?
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Its about 4.53 to 4.58 billion years old.
The Moon is a more primitive planet than Earth because it has not been disturbed by plate tectonics; thus, some of its more ancient rocks are more plentiful. Only a small number of rocks were returned to Earth by the six Apollo and three Luna missions. These rocks vary greatly in age, a reflection of their different ages of formation and their subsequent histories. The oldest dated moon rocks, however, have ages between 4.4 and 4.5 billion years and provide a minimum age for the formation of our nearest planetary neighbor.
Thousands of meteorites, which are fragments of asteroids that fall to Earth, have been recovered. These primitive objects provide the best ages for the time of formation of the Solar System. There are more than 70 meteorites, of different types, whose ages have been measured using radiometric dating techniques. The results show that the meteorites, and therefore the Solar System, formed between 4.53 and 4.58 billion years ago
approx 35000,000,000 years old
4.5 Billion Years Old
4.37 million year old
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About four and a half billion years old.
The Solar system is believed to have formed, according to Nebular Hypothesis proposed by Immanuel Kant in 1755 and independently by Pierre Simon.
It holds that 4.6 Billion years ago it formed from gravitational collapse from a large molecular cloud several light years in diameter. Conservation of angular momentum made the cloud rotate faster Making it more dense and smaller in diameter.
After a 100 million years the hydrogen at the center was dense enough and hot enough at 7 billion degrees to fuse into helium giving of vast amounts of energy. The sun was shining. The Solar energy given of by the new sun Swept most of the remaining gas to the outskirts of the newly evolving Solar system. With the remaining debris forming the rocky inner planets and the lighter gas which was swept out to the edge forming the gas giants like Jupiter. So any accurate geological analysis of Earth rocks should give a date of a bit less than 4.6 Billion years. Because of earths remelting at the surface due to vulcanism most of the oldest rocks should be around 4 billion years old, which has been found to be the case.
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