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Meteorology
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The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.
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When our sun first ignited, temperatures in the inner solar nebula were high enough to convert everything to a gas. Afterwards, once things began to cool down, the first solids to condense were what looked today like small, irregularly shaped white grains. Known as calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs), scientists have worked out the age using uranium-lead dating, a process similar to the radio carbon dating method. These studies indicate that the oldest CAIs so far measured formed 4.568 bill
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― The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
― The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
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