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Right. We don't have a very large sample size currently, so it's a bit premature for definitive statements such as "earthly water not from comets". All we know
by Florin_Andrei 12y ago
Right. We don't have a very large sample size currently, so it's a bit premature for definitive statements such as "earthly water not from comets".
All we know is that this comet shows a different fraction of deuterium, compared to Earth, and some other comets we've checked are all different. So the jury is still out. We need more data, lots more.