• Asteroidal water is water or water precursor deposits such as hydroxide (OH−) that exist in asteroids (i.e., small Solar System bodies (SSSBs) not explicitly...
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    comprise 25 to 35 percent of Phobos's volume) is inconsistent with an asteroidal origin. Observations of Phobos in the thermal infrared suggest a composition...
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    Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H2O. It is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, and it...
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    distinguished from them. From this, their asteroidal appearance, if I take my name, and call them Asteroids; reserving for myself, however, the liberty...
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    theorized to be the impacts of asteroids or comets carrying water from the outer Solar System, where bodies contain much more water ice. The difference between...
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    S2CID 3139621. Dauphas, N (December 2000). "The Late Asteroidal and Cometary Bombardment of Earth as Recorded in Water Deuterium to Protium Ratio". Icarus. 148 (2):...
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    Superheated steam (category Water)
    liquid. If unsaturated steam (a mixture which contains both water vapor and liquid water droplets) is heated at constant pressure, its temperature will...
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  • consistent with roughly equal asteroidal and cometary contributions, while the latter would indicate mostly asteroidal contributions. The corresponding...
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    OSIRIS-REx (category Missions to near-Earth asteroids)
    maneuver. Spaceflight portal Astronomy portal Asteroidal water – Water and its precursors in asteroids List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft...
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    indicate that the cost of returning asteroidal materials to Earth far outweighs their market value, and that asteroid mining will not attract private investment...
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    Exoasteroid (redirect from Exo-asteroid)
    determined that the asteroid possessed a surface rich in water, comprising approximately 26% water by mass, a composition akin to the surface water, primarily...
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  • Asteroid capture is an orbital insertion of an asteroid around a larger planetary body. When asteroids, small rocky bodies in space, are captured, they...
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  • Asteroid is a 1997 NBC TV miniseries about the United States government trying to prevent an asteroid from colliding with the Earth. The miniseries aired...
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    hydrogen, helium and other volatiles. Hydrated (water-containing) minerals are present. C-type asteroids are extremely dark, with albedos typically in the...
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    24 Themis (redirect from Themis (asteroid))
    Andrew S.; Emery, Joshua P. (2010). "Detection of ice and organics on an asteroidal surface". Nature. 464 (7293): 1322–1323. Bibcode:2010Natur.464.1322R....
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    to retain water ice from eruptions or cometary impacts over the age of the Solar System. Ceres is the largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt. It has...
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    Ferrín, Ignacio; Zuluaga, Jorge; Cuartas, Pablo (2013). "The location of Asteroidal Belt Comets (ABCs), in a comet's evolutionary diagram: The Lazarus Comets"...
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    Water vapor, water vapour or aqueous vapor is the gaseous phase of water. It is one state of water within the hydrosphere. Water vapor can be produced...
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    87 Sylvia (redirect from Sylvia (asteroid))
    Optics System Reveals New Asteroidal Satellite (SpaceDaily.com, March 2001) Includes a discovery image. Space.com: First asteroid trio discovered IAUC 7588...
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  • Extraterrestrial liquid water is water in its liquid state that naturally occurs outside Earth. It is a subject of wide interest because it is recognized...
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    or could originate from comets or asteroids. Information using Venus’s cloud data prove that minimal amounts of water vapor exist in Venus’s clouds, possibly...
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    26, 2020. Water may have been delivered to the Moon over geological timescales by the regular bombardment of water-bearing comets, asteroids, and meteoroids...
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  • CI chondrite (section Water)
    Kusakabe M. Karen A. Bodnar R. (2014). "Isotopic compositions of asteroidal liquid water trapped in fluid inclusions of chondrites". Geochemical Journal...
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    concentration of iridium, a chemical element rare on Earth but common in asteroids. Iridium levels in this layer were as much as 160 times above the background...
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  • World Is Not Enough (spacecraft propulsion) (category Extraterrestrial water)
    minerals. Phyllosilicates are abundant in carbonaceous asteroids. This extracted asteroidal water was found to contain large amounts of dissolved carbon...
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    with a probability of 83% that the object moved on an asteroidal path originating from the asteroid belt, rather than on a cometary one (probability of...
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    Concepts Development for Accessing Asteroid Resources; Mark Sonter, Asteroid Enterprises Pty Ltd Resources: Asteroids: What We Can Expect From What We Know...
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    Wiegert, Paul A.; Innanen, Kimmo A.; Mikkola, Seppo (June 12, 1997). "An asteroidal companion to the Earth" (PDF). Nature (letter). 387 (6634): 685–686. Bibcode:1997Natur...
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  • Apophis Asteroid over Colorado and Louisiana". SETI Institute. Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2021. "Asteroidal Occultation...
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  • anhydrous silicates, possibly with water ice in their interiors.[citation needed] D-type asteroids are found in the outer asteroid belt and beyond; examples are...
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