[meteorite-list] Fw: Re: Question about terrestrial age of 4.4 kyr

From: Steve Witt <stelor96_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:26:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <64139.32205.qm_at_web56404.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Shawn,

4.4 kyr is 4,400 years. K=1000

Regards,
Steve
 
Steve Witt
IMCA #9020
http://imca.cc/
 
 
> --- On Mon, 3/22/10, Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Question about terrestrial
> age of 4.4 kyr
> > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 11:07 PM
> > Hello Listers,
> >
> > Today has been a busy day about the topic of money
> and
> > meteorites. I have more of a science question and
> hope
> > someone could answer my question. I was reading an
> article
> > tonight about?NWA 869 and it said that the samples
> yielded
> > a terrestrial age of 4.4 kyr. What does the kyr stand
> for
> > and is this another way of saying?years? The article
> goes
> > on to say that the terrestrial age is consistent with
> the
> > low degree of weathering (W1). I am guessing 4.4 kyr
> means
> > 4.4 years from the low level of weather, but again,
> the
> > desert climate is a perfect environment for
> preserving
> > meteorites.
> >
> > Shawn Alan
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