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TIL In 2023, Researchers re-analyzed lunar dust collected during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission and found evidence that the Moon formed about 40 million years earlier than previously thought. The proportion of lead isotopes indicated that the sample was at least 4.46 billion years old

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