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Title:
Origin of Water on Mars
Authors:
Lunine, J. I.; Morbidelli, A.; Chambers, J. E.
Publication:
33rd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 11-15, 2002, Houston, Texas, abstract no.1791
Publication Date:
03/2002
Origin:
LPI
Bibliographic Code:
2002LPI....33.1791L

Abstract

Dynamical simulations suggest that the Earth's water budget was delivered primarily from the asteroid belt, in the form of large planetary "embryos". The same simulations present a very different picture for Mars -- its water came from a mixture of cometary and small asteroidal bodies.
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