[OldNavyVet]

Moon rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts were used to date the Moon and Earth's age at 4.5 billion years: the Moon being postulatled as a satellite resulting from a massive collision by the Earth/Moon mass, -- "spun from dust and rock around the sun" -- with some other celestial body.

Quotation is from "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones, page 195

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ONV.

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