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

Subject: Re: A new class of comets that orbit within the main asteroid belt
From: Bob Cain
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:19:24 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur, sci.physics

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

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