Friday, July 11, 2003

And I Thought Robert Byrd Was Old And Gassy

He's got nothing on this:

Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planet, a primeval world 12.7 billion years old that will force them to reconsider how and when planets form. The discovery raises the prospect that life may have begun far sooner than most scientists ever imagined. A leading planet-formation expert not involved in the work called the discovery mind-boggling.

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