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Early Solar System meteorites might explain how Earth got water – Yahoo News Australia

Scientists have discovered that meteorites from the early Solar System held water until relatively recently, possibly contributing to life on Earth.

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Some of the oldest known meteorites might just explain how water came to Earth. Gizmodoreports that scientists have discovered evidence carbonaceous chondrites, a group of meteorites from the formation of the Solar System (about 4.5 billion years in the past), held liquid water until just a few hundred thousand years ago. They may have seeded Earth with water when it was still very young, then.
The reseachers dated the water flow in the rocks using a uranium-thorium combo. As uranium is highly mobile…

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