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Ep. 522: Judging Age & Origins, part 1 - Earth Rocks

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

522: Judging Age & Origins, part 1 - Earth Rocks Astronomy Cast 522: Judging Age & Origins, part 1 - Earth Rocks by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay People always want to know how old everything is. And more specifically, they want to know how we know how old everything is. Well, here at Astronomy Cast, it's our job to tell you now only what we know, but how we know what we know. And today we'll begin a series on how we know how old everything is.

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0:00.0

The Astronomy Cows Episode 522.

0:08.0

Age is an origin.

0:10.0

Cut one.

0:11.0

Be Earth.

0:12.0

Welcome to Astronomy Cows, from Weekly Facts Based Journey.

0:14.0

Truth of the Cosmos, will you help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what

0:18.8

we know.

0:19.8

My name is Fraser Kane.

0:20.8

I'm the publisher of Universe Today with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist

0:25.3

for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmoQuest.

0:28.1

Hey Pamela, how you doing?

0:29.9

I'm doing okay enough.

0:31.9

Yes, yes.

0:32.9

You have a scratched cornea.

0:34.9

You are in a deeply uncomfortable time right now.

0:41.1

And here's hoping, if we have this conversation next week, you'll be in less pain.

0:49.1

The show will go on.

0:50.1

The show.

0:51.1

You are the consummate professional.

0:54.8

And I've got nothing shameless to watch.

0:56.4

I mean, I always have things that are shameless to self-promote, but I just wanted to sort of

1:00.4

give a big shout out to all of the fans who nagged me to continue reading the Three Body

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