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Keyword: origin of Earth's water ×Clear all

2 claims from 1 paper

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Source regions and timescales for the delivery of water to the Earth

   Morbidelli, Chambers, Lunine et al. · Meteoritics and Planetary Science · 2000

   The paper uses dynamical models of the early solar system, checked against chemical constraints, to work out where Earth's water came from and when it arrived.

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   1. UncheckedAsteroids and comets from the Jupiter-Saturn region may have delivered the Earth's first water, while it was under half its present mass.“Asteroids and the comets from the Jupiter‐Saturn region were the first water deliverers, when the Earth was less than half its present mass.”
   2. UncheckedMost of Earth's present water was carried by a few planetary embryos from the outer asteroid belt, which Earth absorbed at the end of its formation.“The bulk of the water presently on Earth was carried by a few planetary embryos, originally formed in the outer asteroid belt and accreted by the Earth at the final stage of its formation.”