海角直播 researchers detected a thin layer of water ice and organic molecules on the surface of 24 Themis, the largest in a family of asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
Their unexpected findings will be published Thursday, April 29 in Nature, which will feature two complementary articles by the UCF-led team and by another team of planetary scientists.
鈥淲hat we鈥檝e found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water,鈥� said UCF Physics Professor Humberto Campins, the study鈥檚 lead author.
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