• Question: how old is the earth?

    Asked by el1234 to Donna, Jo, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Donna MacCallum

      Donna MacCallum answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      The earth is 4.5 billion years old, with the sun 30 million years older. This info was determined by radiodating.

    • Photo: Joanna Buckley

      Joanna Buckley answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Hiya el1234 🙂

      It’s a whopping 4.5 billion years old. That’s even older than Bruce Forsyth 🙂

    • Photo: Mark Lancaster

      Mark Lancaster answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      About 4.5 billion years – so this is about 1/3 of the present lifetime of the universe and about the same age as the sun since the planets were formed from the leftover gas and dust that formed the sun… the sun will go out in about 5 billion years and take the earth with it 🙁

    • Photo: Tim Craggs

      Tim Craggs answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Our best estimates put the earth at about 4 billion years old, and the universe at about 14 billion years old.

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