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To: RightWhale
ice comet and land it on the moon why wouldn't the ice comets hit the moon too?
7 posted on 06/16/2004 2:41:20 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: SF Republican
why wouldn't the ice comets hit the moon too?

Silly -- the moon was formed from the recently discovered "cheesy asteroids."

10 posted on 06/16/2004 2:44:52 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: SF Republican

The moon wouldn't have been able to retain the water, however.


14 posted on 06/16/2004 2:48:11 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: SF Republican

That's true. The moon is much smaller, though, and doesn't have enough gravity to retain an atmosphere. So if we land an icy comet on the moon for the water, we would have to throw a tarp over it right away or it would all eventually just boil off.


17 posted on 06/16/2004 2:51:32 PM PDT by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: SF Republican

They might, but the lack of atmospheric pressure and gravitational atraction would cause sudden evaporation into space like the primordial atmosphere the moon once owned .


21 posted on 06/16/2004 4:02:48 PM PDT by Renegade
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