/ Isotopes Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en /blog/aluminum-isotope-early-solar-system <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>A little over four and a half billion years ago, dust circling our young sun was collecting into balls that would become planets. Heat from radioactive decay melted these balls of dust into blobs of molten rock, growing as they accumulated more material. A small piece of one of these molten objects broke away and traveled around the solar system for eons before falling to Earth as a meteorite in the Algerian desert. Now, very accurate dating of this meteorite is giving new insight into the formation of the Solar System.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> September 05, 2023 - 11:02am Andy Fell /blog/aluminum-isotope-early-solar-system /blog/dating-dinosaur-pompeii <p>Northeastern China is home to one of the world’s most remarkable collections of dinosaur fossils. The Jehol biota contains fossils of dinosaurs, plants, insects and fish, many of them preserved in unusual detail with traces of skin and feathers, dating back to the Early Cretaceous period 101 to 143 million years ago.</p> April 16, 2021 - 8:39am Andy Fell /blog/dating-dinosaur-pompeii