Scientists know the exact age of the Moon Meteorite – OREANDA

Date: 23:33 18/04/2015
Source: “Oreanda-News”
City Washington

Itar-NEWS. A group of scientists from the Virtual Institute for Solar System Research at the National Space Agency in the United States were able to establish the exact age of Earth’s natural satellite, the Internet media.

For his discovery, scientists used data from meteorites, the particles were found in the Earth at different times. A set of studies, scientists have established that many collisions of cosmic bodies indicate that as a result of one of the strikes was born not only Debris disk. He was in the vicinity of the Earth.

Part of the resulting fragments “lined up” in the main asteroid belt. Other debris were thrown out for miles beyond the near-Earth space. And finally, the collision has resulted in the formation of fragments of the moon and earth in orbit.

Some time later, after a series of clashes between the asteroid belt newly arrived from outer space stuff redistributed between them. After a certain period of time gathering material in the form of space rock reaches the surface of the Earth.

Age of the moon for centuries was unknown to scientists. However, the result of the research, from combinations of different methods in which information was collected, the researchers concluded: Moon – only satellite earth formed naturally, there was a 4.47 billion years ago.

This conclusion is practically largely consistent with previous estimates of the age of the collision obtained by other methods.