Earth's water comes from Asteroids?

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Icy asteroid may shed light on where Earth's water came from - CNN.com

"Astronomers have looked at dozens of asteroids with this technique, but this is the first time we've seen ice on the surface and organics," astronomer Andrew Rivkin of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, told Nature.com.

 

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Icy asteroid may shed light on where Earth's water came from - CNN.com




What the heck is going on? Ice forming that close to the sun?

The asteriod in question is orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter

 

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Totally missed that.