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This Dwarf Planet Might Have More Fresh Water Than All Of Earth
Popular Science ^ | January 22, 2014 | Colin Lecher

Posted on 01/26/2014 7:31:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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Ceres NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park)

Ceres NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park)

1 posted on 01/26/2014 7:31:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 01/26/2014 7:32:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Can we direct it’s path into Mars? To help terraform Mars?


3 posted on 01/26/2014 7:32:57 PM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: SunkenCiv

Can we direct it’s path into Mars? To help terraform Mars?


4 posted on 01/26/2014 7:32:58 PM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: SunkenCiv

Serendipitously?

Dawn so ugly she gotta sneak up on an asteroid full of water.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 7:34:41 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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6 posted on 01/26/2014 7:36:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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It’s nearly 600 miles in diameter, so, not at this time. :’) And adding its mass to Mars wouldn’t amount to much. Mars has about 1/8th the mass of Earth, and Ceres’ is .00015 the mass of Earth. Ceres is one third of the mass of the entire asteroid belt, so adding all those to Mars as well wouldn’t amount to much (.00045).


7 posted on 01/26/2014 7:37:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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when the 590-mile-wide Ceres moves closer to the sun, part of its icy surface (something never conclusively proven to exist before now) is being melted, and that Herschel picked it up

Maybe we should be talking to this guy Herschel ...

8 posted on 01/26/2014 7:38:24 PM PST by mikrofon (Hugh & Ceres News)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve read we have to be careful looking at the pictures you post. 8^)


9 posted on 01/26/2014 7:39:29 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: SunkenCiv
More water than this planet?.....


10 posted on 01/26/2014 7:40:56 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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11 posted on 01/26/2014 7:42:01 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s disappointing. Well if Terra-forming Mars was easy, everyone would be doing it.


12 posted on 01/26/2014 7:43:45 PM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s disappointing. Well if Terra-forming Mars was easy, everyone would be doing it.


13 posted on 01/26/2014 7:43:45 PM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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14 posted on 01/26/2014 7:43:54 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve read that the average distance between the asteroids is about a million miles.

Not exactly the rock strewn field of rubble often artistically portrayed.


15 posted on 01/26/2014 7:44:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Have to remelt the martian core and hope it develops a working magnetic field first.


16 posted on 01/26/2014 7:46:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Maybe we should be talking to this guy Herschel ...

If he can pick up this dwarf planet . . . he's one scary dude.

17 posted on 01/26/2014 7:50:18 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: SunkenCiv; abb; weegee

This is Hugh

and Ceres.

18 posted on 01/26/2014 7:57:06 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: DannyTN

Or it becomes a great place for an interplanetary way station. Past Mars, not in Jupiter’s radiation field, low gravity, and now we know it has water.


19 posted on 01/26/2014 7:58:15 PM PST by tbw2
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To: cripplecreek

Well if the Artists drew it that way they would run out of paper!


20 posted on 01/26/2014 8:00:32 PM PST by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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