[meteorite-list] CAI's - Formation Age

Carl 's carloselguapo1 at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 28 15:56:54 EST 2010


Hi Mike,

I don't have a precise age but now they may be a few million years younger:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/comet-inner-solar-system-material.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Carl2
 
MikeG wrote:
> I can't recall exactly how old most CAI's are.  I know they were
> formed a few million years before chondrules, but does anyone have a
> more precise age for these?  I think it was around 4.6+ billion years,
> give or take a few minutes....?

 		 	   		  
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