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Frosty Asteroid May Give Clues About Earth's Oceans

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Nell Greenfieldboyce

April 29, 2010

This illustration shows the asteroid 24 Themis flanked by two small fragments that broke off following a crash more than 1 billion years ago. The bottom fragment's cometlike tail comes from the sublimation of ice from its surface.

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