Meteorites Are Cool Because.....they are so very, very old. Meteorites are older than anyone you know. They are older than anything you own. That priceless antique heirloom that's been passed down in your family for generations? Meteorites are older. The Great wall of China? Meteorites are older. The oldest examples of human artifacts like stone tools and cave paintings? Meteorites are older. The ancient light we see from the Andromeda Galaxy that's traveled 18 million trillion miles through space to reach our eyes? Meteorites make that light seem as if it left Andromeda only yesterday. A mountain range? Meteorites are older. The rocks in the deepest part of Grand Canyon? Meteorites are older. The continents and the oceans? The Earth itself (and even the Moon)? Meteorites are older still, by at least half a billion years.
Some meteorites contain tiny amounts of material that has remained essentially unchanged since even before the Sun itself formed out of the pre-solar nebula. Those tiny chondrites sitting inside that ordinary stony meteorite (one that you can buy for less than a dollar a gram) contain bits that are far, far older than nearly any star visible to the naked eye in the nighttime sky. Talk about a connection to the past! ----- Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ Can you really name a star? Read the Truth! http://home.columbus.rr.com/starfaq/ . ----- Original Message ----- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
