Information AboutNucleocosmochronology |
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Nucleocosmochronology has already been successfully employed to determine the age of the Sun (4.57±0.02 Ga, where Ga stands for giga-year, i.e., 109 years) and of the Galactic thin disk (8.3±1.8 Ga), among others. It has also been used to estimate the age of the Milky Way itself, as exemplified by recent study of the Halo Star CS31082-001 . Limiting factors in its precision are the quality of observations of faint stars, and perhaps more importantly, the uncertainty of the primordial abundances of R-process Elements . See Also: References and Further Reading:
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