Ep. 523: Judging Age & Origins, Pt. 2 Across the Solar System

By susie - March 25, 2019 at 4:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Today we push our aging curiosity out into the Solar System to ask that simple question: how old is it and how do we know? What techniques do astronomers use to age various objects and regions in the Solar System?

This is part two of a series.

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