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Astronomers Find a Group of Water-rich Asteroids


If you've ever been at sea or visited a seacoast, you probably looked out at the vast expanse of ocean and wondered, "How did all this water get here?" The answer goes back to Earth's origins some 4.5 billion years ago. In those early times, water-rich planetesimals and other bodies transported water to our still-growing planet.

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