Solar System Not So Old

Credit: NASA/JPL CONCEPT
It was good to see you continuing to provide the “S” of AW&ST in the two articles on the Dawn mission (AW&ST July 2, p. 56). However, I must take issue with the statement that the asteroid Vesta was formed 4.5 billion years ago, as that is a theory based on one selected measurement, among a number...

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