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Based on modern computational models of the Solar System and the analysis results of the oldest rock samples discovered on Earth's surface dating back over 4 billion years (specifically 4.03 billion years in Canada and 4.4 billion years in West-Central Australia), contemporary scientists have concluded that Earth was formed about 4.7 billion years ago. This is the result of the gravitational accretion of millions of asteroids, dust, and gas on a disk of material orbiting the early Sun.