[blam]

"...the volume of ice on Ceres would be greater than that of all the fresh water on Earth."

Might one of these smaller asteroids plunged into earth and flooded all the land?

The heat from entry would melt the ice...would it come down as rain, or?

[blam]

Ping.

[George Stupidnopolis]

An icy world.....sounds just like a normal day at the Hillary Clinton residence.

[SandRat]

ummm,... can you put a pipe on that? Arizona needs the water.

[Graymatter]

This is hugh and Ceres!

[Mount Athos]

That's the biggest asteroid ever seen. It would crack the earth's crust, do more damage than 10,000 H bombs, and throw the earth of its axis.. Well that would be it for the humans

[DB]

Send it to Mars.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Let's crash Ceres into Venus.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

The layering provides new evidence that Ceres is a case of arrested development.

This is strange.

My doctor never said anything about layers when we were discussing MY arrested development...

[Fitzcarraldo]

"Using nanotechnology, a solar-powered mass-driver could be constructed on Ceres, placing it on a slow pathway to a gravitational resonance with Jupiter. From there, multiple encounters with Mars and Earth could place it on a trajectory towards Venus. Using multiple encounters at Venus to reduce its relative speed, part of Ceres would be converted in to a sun-screen to cool the blistering planet. Finally, the ice-rich remains of Ceres would be put on a colision course, supply the surface of Venus with much need-water.

"I envision millions of swimming pools, each inhabited by a heavenly body."

[Dustbunny]

Neat !!!!

[Critical Bill]

[SunkenCiv]

A couple of related topics. This one though will be a GGG ping. :')

Small Comets and Our Origins
University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
Posted on 10/19/2004 11:13:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1250694/posts

An Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere
American Scientist | September-October 2001 | Armand H. Delsemme
Posted on 09/06/2004 8:16:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1208497/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[WestVirginiaRebel]

Hmmm...could be a potentially huge source of hydrogen fuel someday.

[RightWhale]

The main reason why Apollo ended the moon flights was that the moon turned out to be dessicated. To transport water to the moon in support of a base or settlement would have been so far outside the budget that it wouldn't ever happen.

Since then water has been found to be common in the solar system--a main component. We ought to inventory the smaller icy bodies and decide where it would be best to send them and how to handle and manage them so we don't waste any. And then begin moving them to the moon, to Mars.

[SunkenCiv]

[RightWhale]

Some day.

This moon or something similar would make big changes on Mars or on the moon. It might not be a good idea to bring it to earth. Even the mass changes to the moon would have to be looked at since the moon and earth are gravitationally linked.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's a cobbled-together bunch of graphics (see the caption). I rotated the other bodies to sort of line up the major impact scar on each.

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The white spot on Ceres may be water, but could also be a fresh impact crater.

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