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Suppose you find a rock that contains some potassium-40 (half-life of 1.3 billion years). You measure the amount and determine that there are 5 grams of potassium-40 in the rock.
 
  By measuring the amount of its decay product (argon-40 ) present in the rock, you realize that there must have been 40 grams of potassium-40 when the rock solidified. How old is the rock? A) 1.3 billion years
  B) 2.6 billion years
  C) 3.9 billion years
  D) 5.2 billion years
  E) none of the above

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What are the Aten asteroids?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Asteroids staying very close to the Sun, with semimajor axes less than 1 A.U. and periods of less than a year. Most of the ones now known do have aphelions slightly outside our orbit.


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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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