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Asteroids 'dumped water into molten Moon'
BBC ^ | May 31, 2016 | Jonathan Webb

Posted on 05/31/2016 4:24:11 PM PDT by rdl6989

A smattering of water is buried deep inside the Moon and it arrived during the satellite's very early history, a new study concludes, when asteroids plunged into its churning magma oceans. How and when water got trapped in volcanic lunar rocks is a huge and open question for planetary scientists.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; lunarorigin; moon; themoon
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1 posted on 05/31/2016 4:24:12 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SunkenCiv

Lunar ping.


2 posted on 05/31/2016 4:24:59 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Climate Change!


3 posted on 05/31/2016 4:25:28 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm so open minded that you should only think like me.)
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To: BipolarBob

Quick, somebody call Al Gore.


4 posted on 05/31/2016 4:26:07 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

The moon makes sense. Mars is a mirage.


5 posted on 05/31/2016 4:39:46 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: rdl6989

So, then, where did all of these asteriods and comets of ice/water come from?


6 posted on 05/31/2016 4:42:40 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: rdl6989

Chondrite asteroids, particularly carbonatous chondrites commonly contain a lot of water. In general, they are pretty much the same in composition as the dust and other particles out of which the solar system was formed. So, I guess it would not be surprising if the moon picked a fair amount of water during the asteroid bombardment phase of the moon’s formation.

If it seems the heat would drive all the water off, you can remember that many minerals and even the mantle region of the earth has large amounts of water and, it is likely a lot of our oceans came froze these same asteroids and from volcanos which still release lots of water.


7 posted on 05/31/2016 4:48:23 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: rdl6989

It’s fascinating to watch the increasingly far-fetched suppositions raised to support failed planetary formation theory.


8 posted on 05/31/2016 4:49:33 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: TomGuy

God.


9 posted on 05/31/2016 4:51:29 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: TomGuy

See # 7. Also consider the fact that there is a lot of water in the Gas Giants like Jupiter and Saturn and their moons.


10 posted on 05/31/2016 4:51:34 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: rdl6989
"A NEW STUDY CONCLUDES"

(said Dr Jessica Barnes from the Open University in the UK, first author of the new paper in Nature Communications.)

"A newer study at Free Republic concludes Dr Jessica Barnes from the Open University based her so-called 'study' based on wishful thinking and the theory of sticky spaghetti tossed against a wall."

11 posted on 05/31/2016 4:59:22 PM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: rdl6989

That reminds me. Time for my enema.


12 posted on 05/31/2016 5:02:52 PM PDT by disndat
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To: rdl6989; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks rdl6989. That's amoré. See the "lunarorigin" keyword for much more.



13 posted on 05/31/2016 5:03:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: thoughtomator
It’s fascinating to watch the increasingly far-fetched suppositions raised to support failed planetary formation theory.

Yes, it is.

Stars with planets on strange orbits: what's going on?

14 posted on 05/31/2016 5:11:24 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: disndat

“Moooooooon River! You using the whole fist, doc?”


15 posted on 05/31/2016 5:12:47 PM PDT by Rastus (#AlwaysTrump #NeverHillary)
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To: rdl6989
How and when water got trapped in volcanic lunar rocks is a huge and open question for planetary scientists.

One of the (only two) components of water is Hydrogen.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, as far as we can tell.

1 + 1 = ?

16 posted on 05/31/2016 5:13:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: samtheman
Mars is a mirage.


17 posted on 05/31/2016 5:14:55 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: samtheman
Just a reflection in a mirror.


18 posted on 05/31/2016 5:17:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: TomGuy
So, then, where did all of these asteriods and comets of ice/water come from?


19 posted on 05/31/2016 5:19:30 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Rastus

Is that in Maryland?


20 posted on 05/31/2016 5:31:09 PM PDT by disndat
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