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Why are rock samples from the solar system useful for determining the age of earth?

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Also, because Earth formed as part of our sun's family of planets – our solar system – scientists use radiometric dating to determine the ages of extraterrestrial objects, such as meteorites. These are space rocks that once orbited our sun, but later entered Earth's atmosphere and struck our world's surface.

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