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More Than Half of Near Earth Objects Could Be "Dark Comets"


xt time you're visiting the seaside or a large lake, or even sipping a frosty glass of water, think about where it all originated. There are many pathways that water could have taken to the infant Earth: via comets, "wet asteroids", and outgassing from early volcanism.

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