Starstuff and Nanodiamonds
Wherein I meet our collective origins. Huge thanks to Dr. Philipp Heck for helping to create this episode. His research is totally out of this world. ba-dum-ching NEW! Subreddit: http://www....
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- I'm here with Philipp Heck, who is the Robert A. Pritzker, Associate Curator of Meteachsadfaa—Meteor—aww shoot... - The Robert A. Pritzker, Associate Curator for Meteoritics and Polar Studies. - There. - I practiced this many times. - Yeah. Today we're going to talk about the age of the solar system. -These large, white, aluminum ridge inclusions that you can see here, these are the oldest minerals that formed in the solar system, and they can be dated, and it' basically the start of the solar system. We call it T-0, time 0. It's 4.567 billion years. It's an easy number to remember. 4.567 billion. - We know how old the solar system is because of this specific specimen. - Exactly, exactly. This defines T-0. When I give public talks, ...
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- I'm here with Philipp Heck, who is the Robert A. Pritzker, Associate Curator of Meteachsadfaa—Meteor—aww shoot... - The Robert A. Pritzker, Associate Curator for Meteoritics and Polar Studies. - There. - I practiced this many times. - Yeah. Today we're going to talk about the age of the solar system. -These large, white, aluminum ridge inclusions that you can see here, these are the oldest minerals that formed in the solar system, and they can be dated, and it' basically the start of the solar system. We call it T-0, time 0. It's 4.567 billion years. It's an easy number to remember. 4.567 billion. - We know how old the solar system is because of this specific specimen. - Exactly, exactly. This defines T-0. When I give public talks, ...
