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To: cripplecreek

Ceres could be a future source of water if we ever need it for space travel or colonizing.


4 posted on 06/17/2015 7:18:43 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62
Ceres could be a future source of water if we ever need it for space travel or colonizing.

Looks like old Isaac Asimov was, sadly, wrong on both counts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Way

1) The rings of Saturn do not have mountain-size constituents, and

2) There would be no reason to go that far anyway, as the Main Asteroid Belt is much closer.

(In fact, could it be that Phobos or Deimos themselves have a high water content?)

Regards,

6 posted on 06/17/2015 8:08:09 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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