[Red Badger]

PinGGG!....................

[circlecity]

There was an episode of Pawn Stars where someone brought in what they thought was a meteorite. The expert who came in acknowledged that fragments like this are worth big bucks. Whoever found this hit the jackpot.

[ryderann]

“That means it formed from the same cloud of dust and gas that birthed the Sun and the planets.”

I do not like the woke word “birthed”. It sounds ignorant.
What in the world is wrong with “gave birth to”?

[NWFree]

I don’t think it looks a day over 3.9 billion

[Dr. Thorne]

Wow! 4.6 BILLION years old! How’d they figger that out? By counting the number of candles on its cake?

[nickcarraway]

I was wondering where I left it.

[Chainmail]

"..an important step towards understanding how life began"

Yeah, sure - always the hope of "scientists" to demonstrate that life came about by accident.

I also note that the latest Martian rover is still creeping around, "looking for signs of life". Hope they gave it other missions too, otherwise they wasted our money (again).

[Big Red Badger]

4.6 Billion,
Yes I feel Dizzy.

[Robert DeLong]

A small fragment of rock found lying in a field in Gloucestershire in the UK may not have looked like much to the casual passerby, but it could contain vital information about the formation of the Solar System – and the origins of life itself.

Or maybe not.

[tet68]

“But the composition is different to anything you would find here on Earth and potentially unlike any other meteorites we’ve found – possibly containing some previously unknown chemistry or physical structure never before seen in other recorded meteorite samples.”

Oh, now that puts my mind at ease.../s

[bgill]

They’re found lots of places. Ain’t no big thing. I have one.

[Charles Henrickson]

around 4.6 billion years old

Let's just make up numbers, shall we?

[SteveH]

“Carbonaceous chondrites” might be a good name for a rock band

[DJ Frisat]

“ancient 4.6-year-old meteorite”?!!!! 😯

Department of redundancy department… 😆

[Honest Nigerian]

That’s because it did not form here on Earth, but hails from somewhere out past the orbit of Mars. Kicked out by gravitational interactions or a collision between asteroids, the fragment tumbled across the vastness of space to end up punching through our atmosphere to land on Earth as a meteorite.
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And that, my dear eleventh grade composition students, is an example of how to make some dull conjecture seem like facts. Just use exciting adjectives, adverbs and verbs to gloss over the phony-baloney assertions about age of the universe.

[RckyRaCoCo]

[American in Israel]

Looking for Love in all the wrong places...