The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System

www.sciencealert.com ^ | 13 JAN 2020 | MICHELLE STARR

[Openurmind]

“Nah. God made it 4 thousand years ago.”

Slightly off the official narrative, It was 6k ago, And... there are still living trees that old that have yet to die and be petrified... :)

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[Red Badger]

I’ve dated quite a few rocks in my time...............

[farming pharmer]

All elements on Earth, with the exception of helium, are older than the solar system.

What??? The argon you're breathing in at this very moment could have formed minutes ago. There are other examples...

[Bubba_Leroy]

I read that helium was the next element to form after hydrogen from the Big Bang.

Undoubtedly some (possibly most) of the helium on Earth predates the solar system. The only point I was trying to make was that while helium is manufactured by our sun (through hydrogen fusion), nearly every other naturally occurring element found on Earth predates the solar system.

[no-to-illegals]

But does this cover weather related issues as to why scientists claim to know what will happen in 100 years but cannot predict the weather accurately ? for more than 8 or 9 days. Time too far removed to be accurate

[Capt. Tom]

They used scanning electron microscopy, secondary ion mass spectrometry and noble gas mass spectrometry, looking for the effects of exposure to cosmic radiation, which can penetrate solid material such as meteorites and leave its mark on the silicon carbide grains.

Sounds like something out of "Forensic Files". -Tom

[GingisK]

All of the elements are forged from hydrogen in stars. Stars are still churning them out.

[GingisK]

I wonder how that meteor excapednl the gravity well of a distant star?

Stars blow up. The expelled matter moves plenty fast to shoot through long distances without being captured.

[Bubba_Leroy]

What??? The argon you're breathing in at this very moment could have formed minutes ago.

I stand corrected. If I recall from my college chemistry courses 40 years ago, argon is created from the decay of a radioactive isotope of potassium. There is also lead on Earth that was created from the radioactive decay of uranium. All radioactive isotopes eventually decay into another element.

Going the other direction on the periodic table, trace amounts of naturally occurring plutonium can be found in some uranium deposits, formed from the decay of uranium atoms bombarding other uranium atoms with free neutrons.

[Rebelbase]

There’s a guy on Youtube who makes rings out of meteorite metal.

[rfp1234]

(Paraphrasing Jay Leno) That makes it only 2 weeks younger than Dick Clark’s kidney stones.

[grey_whiskers]

Keith Richards had no comment.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Old Stuff

The Preservers might not want their stuff messed with!

Might haven sacred objects from the Preservers!

[Kriggerel]

Joni sang it best:

“We are stardust,
we are golden.
We are billion-year-old carbon
(caught in the Devil’s Bargain),
and we’ve got to get ourselves
back to the Garden...”

[Red Badger]

Supposedly, Jim Bowie’s famous knife was made from meteorite iron...............

[Jimmy Valentine]

Time to throw out the tuna casserole leftovers! 😁

[Red Badger]

Wait long enough and it will leave by itself................

[ridesthemiles]

Part of a prehistoric fruitcake???

[farming pharmer]

Yeah, my last chemistry class was 30+ years ago too. I don’t remember much, but the potassium-40 -> argon-40 thing stuck in my head for some reason.