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Mars Rock Older Than Thought

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-don't-look-a-day-over-3-billion dept.

Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC reports on a finding, reported in Nature, (abstract), that the so-called 'Black Beauty' rock, discovered in the Sahara, is over twice as old as previously thought. The meteorite is now thought to be 4.4 billion years old, dating from a time in a nascent Mars' history that scientists are eager to know more about."

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  1. This rock is so old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it's older than thought itself!

  2. Proof that thinking is a recent occurence ... by Laxator2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...Older than thought".
    Humans became a sentient species only recently, on the geological time scale.
    So a rock being older that thought itself, is not so surprising.
    Now, what was I just thinking about?
    My head feels heavy, like a rock ...