Recent epoch


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nounapproximately the last 10,000 years

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The findings "appear to be related to changes in the planet's tilt and orbital parameters in recent epochs, that last a few tens to a few hundreds of millions of years," says planetary scientist Jim Bell of Cornell University.
The introductory chapter on state formation was excellent in terms of being comprehensive while surveying the main recent epochs of Sudanese history.
But it goes only as deep as 23rd magnitude, so it can measure only large-scale structures in relatively recent epochs.
The large ratio of distant to nearby radio sources appears to indicate a much greater abundance of radio galaxies and quasars in the early universe than in recent epochs. "The conditions for the formation of radio galaxies and quasars were much more favorable in the far distant past than they are now," Condon says.
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