Young earth creationists and Carbon-14 "dating" of diamonds Young earth creationists are using this "Carbon-14 dating of diamonds" to argue that geologists are all wrong that the earth has been around for millions and billions of years. In this video I discuss the directly relevant science information that the young earth creationists are conveniently ignoring. (By the way, yes, I misspoke in the video about C14 being produced from C12 in the atmosphere; it's produced from nitrogen atoms, not carbon atoms.) Here is some relevant reference information (of course, as you'll notice from numerous examples of how young earth creationists behave in the comments sections of my videos, they are apparently incapable of lifting a finger to actually look up and read any real science information; they avoid/evade it like the plague; so this information is just for everyone else): Excess carbon-14 abundances in uranium ores: Possible evidence for emission from uranium-series isotopes by D. Barker, AJT Jull, and DJ Donahue (Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 12, Issue 10, p. 737-740 ) Carbon-14 Abundances in Uranium Ores and Possible Spontaneous Exotic Emission from U-Series Nuclides by AJT Jull, D. Barker, and DJ Donahue (Meteoritics, Vol. 20, p.676 [Dec. 1985]) 14C in uranium and thorium minerals: a signature of cluster radioactivity? by R. Bonetti, et al (European Physical Journal A, Vol. 5, No. 2, 235-238 [Jun. 1999])
CMS Meteorite Collection Tour A narrated tour through the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies' vast meteorite collection, with a special focus on day-to-day operations and collection management.
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MoonFaker: Exhibit D: Critique #09: Made In the USSR Claim #11. The Soviets ground down a few grams of NASA's moon rocks to create their lunar samples. In Exhibit D Part 5 - 3:30 as if this has anything to do with the validity of NASAs moon rocks, Jarrah speculates that the US gave the Soviets, who, according to Jarrah, are known liars and idiots, moon rocks from Apollos 11 and 12, so that they had the material they needed to create their own lunar samples. The Soviets, who in case you didn't know are known liars and idiots, according to Jarrah, then sacrificed the Apollo moon rocks they were given and scraped off fragments to pass off as coming from Luna 16. Of course, the Luna 16 samples can be shown to be chemically different from anything the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 brought back, which proves nothing really. Why did I even do this video? Videos: MoonFaker: Exhibit D Part 5 Sources: Handbook of Lunar Soils (1983) Compiled by RV Morris et al. JSC Planetary Materials Branch Publication 67 (JSC 19069). curator.jsc.nasa.gov Compositional Variation In Lunar Regolith Samples Lateral by RL Korotev - 1998 adsabs.harvard.edu The Clementine Mission www.lpi.usra.edu A Hybrid Method For Calculating TiO2 Concentrations Using Clementine UVVIS Data, www.higp.hawaii.edu The Lunar Opposition Surge: Observations by Clementine trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov Preliminary Research for Image Classification with Texture and Spectral Features for Lunar geological mapping. www.lpi.usra.edu Petrological Character of the Luna 16 Sample From ...
Meteorite Just One PIece of an Unknown Celestial Body Date- 28th Mar 11 Source- carnegiescience.edu 'Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and tracked by NASA's Near Earth Object astronomical network. Now in a series of 20 papers for a special double issue of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, published on December 15, researchers have expanded their work to demonstrate the diversity of these fragments, with major implications for the meteorite's origin.' More info- carnegiescience.edu