Icy asteroid may shed light on where Earth's water came from

Icy asteroid may shed light on where Earth's water came from

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An icy asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Saturn is adding credence to theories that Earth's water was delivered from space, according to a report published in the new issue of the science journal Nature.

Two teams of scientists found their evidence when looking at 24 Themis, a asteroid about 479 million kilometers (300 million miles) from the sun, or roughly three times the average distance from Earth to the sun.

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This is a story about how some people in the scientific community think that the water on Earth may have came from an asteroid. This is a very interesting hypothesis because it would mean that all life would have originated from space as life requires water to be sustained. It strongly backs up the panspermia hypothesis, which would mean that we are all descended from very primitive aliens.

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