How old is the solar system?
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Almost as old as Cher.
aprox. 4.5 billiion years old
Between 4.5 and 5.5 billion years.
Our solar system is composed largely of the remnants of a past star which exploded in a supernova.
I'm a young earth creationist and I believe that it is about 10,000 yrs old.
as old as flavar flav
Most astrophysicists estimate our planet to be 4-5 billion years old.
estimated to be 5billion years
4-5 Billion at an estimate i think...
Around the age of the Sun: 5,000 million of years and it will last another 5,000 million years.
Genesis 1:1
Using radiometric dating, scientists can estimate that the solar system is 4.6 billion years old. The oldest rocks on Earth are approximately 3.9 billion years old. Rocks this old are rare, as the Earth's surface is constantly being reshaped by erosion, vulcanism and plate tectonics. To estimate the age of the solar system scientists must use meteorites, which were formed during the early condensation of the solar nebula. The oldest meteorites (such as the Canyon Diablo meteorite) are found to have an age of 4.6 billion years , hence the solar system must be at least 4.6 billion years old.
The current theory of solar system formation is the nebular hypothesis, first proposed in 1755 by Immanuel Kant and independently formulated by Pierre-Simon Laplace. The nebular theory has been refined over many years and now has a great deal of evidence supporting it.
To briefly summarize, the nebular theory holds that the solar system was formed from the gravitational collapse of a gaseous cloud called the solar nebula. It had a diameter of 100 AU and was 2-3 times the mass of the Sun. Over time a disturbance (possibly a nearby supernova) squeezed the nebula, pushing matter inward until gravitational forces overcame the internal gas pressure and it began to collapse. As the nebula collapsed it began to spin faster to conserve angular momentum, and became warmer. As the competing forces associated with gravity, gas pressure, magnetic fields, and rotation acted on it the contracting nebula began to flatten into a spinning protoplanetary disk with a gradually contracting protostar at the center.
Grains of dust (silicates and metals) and ice (hydrogen compounds) condensed from the gas, and began to accrete into larger and larger clumps, forming planetesimals. Inside the frost line, planetesimals were composed of rock and metal, because those are the only grains that can condense at those temperatures, and remained relatively small because they were only 0.6% the mass of the disk. The larger icy planetesimals beyond the frost line became massive enough to capture and hold onto helium and then hydrogen gases, which caused them to rapidly grow into jovian protoplanets.
After 100 million years, the pressure and density of hydrogen in the centre of the collapsing nebula became great enough for the protosun to begin thermonuclear fusion, which increased until hydrostatic equilibrium was achieved. The young Sun's solar wind then cleared away all the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk, blowing it into interstellar space, thus ending the growth of the planets.
I believe according to Scripture it is younger than 10,000 years.
Don't be fooled by evolution theories.
4.5 billion years old. pretty much the same age as the sun.
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