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21: Paleontologist Evelyn Vollmer, Figuring out the Age of the Earth, and What Defines a Dinosaur

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The Age of Meteorites and the Earth

The age of 10 earths would be right. That's what you said 4.6 billion years so and and I'm sorry so he was the meteorite Yeah, so he was studying lead isotopes in meteorites Basically what they were trying to do was find the oldest pieces of rock on the earth that they could to try to come up with This number. The one that he kept finding in these meteorites was 4.6billion years old. Check out episode 17 of the podcast for more information about radiometric dating.

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