Re:Lunar samples returned by Chang’e-5 tell of recent volcanism
by jcelerier on Sunday October 10, 2021 @05:10PM
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What would be ancient then ? Because if 2B is recent, 4.5B can't be ancient, yet the moon potentially didn't even exist ?
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Re:Lunar samples returned by Chang’e-5 tell of recent volcanism
by lanerobertlane on Sunday October 10, 2021 @05:29PM
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I'm not sure there's a consensus, I expect it depends on your astronomical area of study. If you study the whole universe, than our solar system at 4.5B years old is pretty recent compared to the 14B years of the universe, so there's no ancient history of the moon.
I'd say if you studied the moon, anything that happened in it's early lifetime is ancient so the protomoon and first billion years into it's existence, maybe.
I guess it's similar to how people studying evolution class Humans as a recent event, but people who study humans class the the Pyramids as ancient history.
Re:Lunar samples returned by Chang’e-5 tell of recent volcanism
by mr_toad on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:02PM
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That’s still a seventh of the age of the universe. It’d be like a historian referring to the US war of independence as recent history.
Re:Lunar samples returned by Chang’e-5 tell of recent volcanism
by rbanffy on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:14AM
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In many senses we are still experiencing its effects.