Moon found to be 140 mn yrs older than previous estimates
A new research has found that the Moon is 4.51 billion years old, almost 140 million years older than previous estimates. Researchers used Uranium-Lead dating on fragments of the mineral zircon, which was obtained from samples retrieved during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission. The new estimate of the Moon's age is believed to be accurate up to 10 million years.