Re: A new class of comets that orbit within the main asteroid belt

[Sam Wormley]

Bob Cain wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>
> >  New look for comets
> >    http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/18/1
> >
> >  The water, organics and everything else found in cometary material
> >  originated from the huge cloud of gas an dust that collapsed forming
> >  the solar system. Are you asking how the water forms in interstellar
> >  clouds?
>
>
> That's one question.
>
> The other is what kind of "fractional distillation" (analogy only)
> partitioned out objects with just the composition of comets?
>
>
> Bob

  On water ice formation in interstellar cloud
    http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507137

  Astronomers believe that water is a key ingredient in star formation.
    http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/aprjun98/apr2098/20astro.html