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Title:
Water in the Small Bodies of the Solar System
Authors:
Jewitt, D.; Chizmadia, L.; Grimm, R.; Prialnik, D.
Publication:
Protostars and Planets V, B. Reipurth, D. Jewitt, and K. Keil (eds.), University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 951 pp., 2007., p.863-878
Publication Date:
00/2007
Origin:
LPI
Bibliographic Code:
2007prpl.conf..863J

Abstract

Water is important for its obvious role as the enabler of life but more generally as the most abundant volatile molecule in the solar system, containing about half the condensible mass in solids. In its solid phase, water strongly influences the opacity of the protoplanetary disk and may determine how fast, and even whether, gas giant planets form. Water ice is found or suspected in a wide range of small-body populations, including the giant planet Trojan librators, comets, Centaurs, Kuiper belt objects, and asteroids in the outer belt. In addition to ice, there is mineralogical evidence for the past presence of liquid water in certain meteorites and, by inference, in their parent main-belt asteroids. The survival and evolution of liquid and solid water in small bodies is discussed.
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