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Solar System Ice: Source of Earth's Water
Carnegie Institution ^ | Thursday, July 12, 2012 | unattributed

Posted on 07/14/2012 6:12:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Scientists have long believed that comets and, or a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites were the sources of early Earth's volatile elements -- which include hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon -- and possibly organic material, too. Understanding where these volatiles came from is crucial for determining the origins of both water and life on the planet. New research led by Carnegie's Conel Alexander focuses on frozen water that was distributed throughout much of the early Solar System, but probably not in the materials that aggregated to initially form Earth...

It has been suggested that both comets and carbonaceous chondrites formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter, perhaps even at the edges of our Solar System, and then moved inward, eventually bringing their bounty of volatiles and organic material to Earth. If this were true, then the ice found in comets and the remnants of ice preserved in carbonaceous chondrites in the form of hydrated silicates, such as clays, would have similar isotopic compositions.

Alexander's team... analyzed samples from 85 carbonaceous chondrites, and were able to show that carbonaceous chondrites likely did not form in the same regions of the Solar System as comets because they have much lower deuterium content. If so, this result directly contradicts the two most-prominent models for how the Solar System developed its current architecture.

The team suggests that carbonaceous chondrites formed instead in the asteroid belt that exists between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. What's more, they propose that most of the volatile elements on Earth arrived from a variety of chondrites, not from comets.

(Excerpt) Read more at carnegiescience.edu ...


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Caption: This is a cross-section of a chondritic meteorite.

Caption: This is a cross-section of a chondritic meteorite.

1 posted on 07/14/2012 6:13:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself
The Big Splash:
A Scientific Discovery
That Revolutionizes the Way
We View the Origin of Life,
the Water We Drink,
the Death of the Dinosaurs,
the Creation of the Oceans,
the Nature of the Cosmos,
and the Very Future of the Earth Itself

by Louis A. Frank
and Patrick Huyghe


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4 posted on 07/14/2012 7:00:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Why hasn’t there been more water discovered on Mars?


5 posted on 07/14/2012 7:01:14 AM PDT by HChampagne
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To: SunkenCiv
Earth's volatile elements -- which include hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon -- and possibly organic material, too.

Oh, dear. I guess all the scientists were out to lunch when it came time to proofread this?

I never thought of carbon as being particularly volatile. I suppose some carbon compounds might fit that description, but not elemental carbon. And I wonder what the "organic material" could possibly be, if not carbon and hydrogen?

6 posted on 07/14/2012 7:07:26 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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· Posted by dragnet2 ·
· 12 replies ·
· latimes.com ·
· 4/30/2012 ·
· Diana Marcum ·

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7 posted on 07/14/2012 7:13:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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8 posted on 07/14/2012 7:13:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: HChampagne

>>Why hasn’t there been more water discovered on Mars?

Because God didn’t need to steer chondritic meteorites there.


9 posted on 07/14/2012 7:14:25 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: HChampagne

Two possibilities come to mind, well, three: Mars is difficult to explore because of the distance and apparent foolish mistakes made by people trying to hit it. The first to hit Mars (other than Laz) was NASA, which failed to get its probe into Martian orbit back in the 1960s. The first to attempt it was the USSR when Khruschev was still in charge (i.e., a long time ago). The Soviets and now the Russians have the worst record in Mars probing.

The second possibility is, Mars doesn't have much water, which IMV is the correct conclusion.

The third one which came to mind as I began this is, Mars' slightly lower density than that of Earth (Mars has the lowest density of the known "rocky" planets, as opposed to the four gas giants; not enough is known about Pluto, which IMV remains among the planets) may be do to having been made up of lots of water ice.



 So, where did the water on Mars come from?

· 03/07/2004 2:21:58 AM PST ·
· Posted by LibWhacker ·
· 95 replies ·
· The Toronto Star ·
· 3/7/04 ·
· Terence Dickinson ·

The Mars rover Opportunity's examination of Martian rocks last week provided the first convincing evidence that our neighbour world was once "awash" in water, as one NASA scientist described it. But where did the water come from? And why does Mars have no liquid water now, while Earth apparently has been covered with the stuff for 4 billion years? Scientists are just beginning to piece the story together, and it goes right back to the beginning. Mars, like Earth, was formed from dusty and rocky debris left over after the sun was born 4.57 billion years ago. Initially, there were...



10 posted on 07/14/2012 7:19:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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11 posted on 07/14/2012 7:45:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: HChampagne

Mars had liquid water, seas and an atmosphere covering the planet billions of years ago.

The theory is that it once had a magnetic field generated by a spinning iron core just like Earth. However, because of its smaller size and other factors, the core went dead much sooner. The Earth’s eventually will too.

A ‘dead’ planet cannot shield itself from solar wind. The water and most of the atmosphere was slowly ‘blow dried’ by this radiation over billions of years. However, the ice caps remain since that water is permanently frozen and never saw enough energy from the sun to reach a gas state.


12 posted on 07/14/2012 8:46:44 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: SunkenCiv

Every comet we have visited HAS NO WATER. They are essentially identical to every other asteroid, dry and essentally a rock. The cometary appearance is an electrical phenomenum, not an outgassing of water vapor from ice. That alone falsifies this flawed premise.


13 posted on 07/14/2012 9:06:49 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Are you familiar with Van Flandern’s ‘exploding planet’ hypothesis? He posited that a watery world larger than Earthc existed approximately where MArs now orbits, and Mars was then a moon of that planet, which exploded and caused the very strange surface pattern on Mars and essentially blew away an atmosphere there, while ‘seeding the solar system with lots of water blobs which have since impacted other planets like Earth. Some of the extinction boundaries may in fact be when large amounts of this ‘blob water entered Earth’s atmosphere and caused massive cloud cover which lasted perhaps a century or more at the time. It is an intriguing hypothesis and he did a huge amount of astro-physical data collection and correlation for his hypothesis. Wal Thornhill’s Electric Universe combined with Hoagland’s hyper-dimensional physics notions (the ones not simply so idiotic as to be dismissed) almost works to fill in the gaps.


14 posted on 07/14/2012 9:15:54 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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Don’t you know that Howard Walowitz’s date accidentally steered the Mars rover into a ditch, thus discovering water. But he can’t claim credit becuase she wasn’t supposed to be in the Mars lab?

Son-of-a-b!tch!


15 posted on 07/14/2012 12:38:03 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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No, but I do know that an Airforce techy summoned to try and help get a glitch out of equipment which was processing data from a Lunar mission while it was going on was shown NASA footage, by another on-site techy, of someone's base on the backside of the Moon, and that during the era of Lunar landings by our rocket propelled multi-stage disposable crafts.

Did you know that there's a monolith sticking waaaay up off the surface of the Mars moon, Phobos? Did you know that our missions to Mars have photographed artificially produced structures on Mars, and massive ruins on the Martian surface and catastrophically exposed tubular structures that once lay below and just at the surface of Mars, tubular structures large enough for London double decker buses to pass three abreast inside the tubes, and that these tubes are interconnected and appear to evidence reflective objects that have to be inside the tubes, and that we can tell this because of the reflective nature or lack thereof with different satellite passes over the same regions? Did you know that we have several Astronauts who have revealed that they have seen what they feel are extra-terrestrial crafts on earth and in space on the way to and from the Moon? ... And I could go on and on and on, even bringing in eyewitness accounts from credible fellow citizens who have things to tell that you might not want to hear, invoilving involuntary interactions with what these people believe are non-human entities. But what's the point?

16 posted on 07/14/2012 11:54:20 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: bicyclerepair
Here's his date cleaned up.


17 posted on 07/15/2012 12:10:29 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: MHGinTN

18 posted on 07/15/2012 12:15:07 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch
Richard is a mixed bag. His ego outstrips his rational mind on too many occasions. But he's not insane and he is not uneducated. It remains to be seen if he is onto something regarding hyper-dimensional 'Physics'.

The best handling of the Cydonia material has been done by Tom Vanflandern. [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkXsQbaDg5g ] There's a lengthy three part Youtube video of Tom explaining the face on the Cydonian plane, if you're interested in a rational discussion on it.

19 posted on 07/15/2012 12:31:34 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Swordmaker

Thanks Swordmaker. And BTW, FR is close to unusable today.


20 posted on 07/15/2012 1:58:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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