Shooting small rocks from a high-speed cannon sounds like a school science project. In fact, it was a sophisticated science experiment. And the results showed how some asteroids rocks could have brought water to the early Earth.
Earth’s Water Likely Came from Very Early Asteroid Strikes. Earth got most of its water from asteroid impacts nearly 4.6 billion years ago, shortly after the solar system first took shape, a new study suggests.
The stars of the sky that fell to earth was the asteroids also known the “falling stars”
👉 In Revelation 6:13 ” Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.
Asteroid impact:
An asteroid impact can create glass and melted rock, which can trap water vapor. The finding boosts the idea that asteroids rocks brought water to the early Earth.
The Bible states that water is from the rock :
👉 In Psalms 105:41 ” He split open a rock, and water gushed out to form a river through the dry wasteland.
👉 In Psalms 78:16 ” He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river!”
What are asteroids?
“We can’t bring an asteroid rocks to Earth and crash it into the Earth. Bad things would happen,” says R. Terik Daly. “So we went into the lab and tried to recreate the event as best we can.” Daly is a planetary geologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Earth developed fairly close to the sun. Here, it would have been too hot for water to condense out of its gas phase and form liquid water. Earth also was too small to hold onto much nearby gas anyway. So scientists think the pale blue dot may have received its water from elsewhere. How that might have happened, however, remains an open question.
Daly wanted to test whether Earth could have gotten its water from asteroids. His team’s new data indicate asteroids could have delivered up to 30 percent of their stored water to growing planets.
How they learned that:
Daly’s got his PhD in Earth and planetary sciences, last year, at Brown University in Providence, R.I. While there, he worked with planetary scientist Peter Schultz. Together, the two made marble-sized pellets of antigorite (An-TIG-or-ite). It resembles the type of rock that may have brought water to Earth billions of years ago.
The new research suggests that Earth’s water came from both rocky material, such as asteroids, and from the vast cloud of dust and gas remaining after the sun’s formation, called the solar nebula.
Earth’s ocean water is similar to that found in asteroids. That’s one reason scientists have long thought that most earthly water came from an asteroid bombardment in the days of the early solar system. The ratio of deuterium – a heavier hydrogen isotope – to normal hydrogen is a unique chemical signature in various water sources. In the case of Earth’s oceans, the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio is close to what is found in asteroids. But, according to Steven Desch, also at ASU and one of the team members:
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