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

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Using Meteorites to Measure the Age of the Earth

Meteorites are being used to measure the age of the earth. They have been in space this whole time and haven't gone through the rock cycle. We can uranium date these meteorites to 4.6 billion years. Lots of meteorite samples and samples of other old rocks all support this number, which is wild.

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