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The Role of the Norwegian Jazz Scene in the Science of Micro Meteoroids

There's water first. It's where the water started off as ice. As you go outwards in the solar system away from the early sun, temperatures are getting colder and colder until eventually it starts snowing. And those ice grains get built into some of the early asteroids. The ice melts on the asteroid, turns into mud, into clay minerals that contain water. When they hit the Earth, they release that water. You do that enough and you get an ocean. I think there's one thing that... Wow. I mean, this is good stuff. I don't normally listen to radio programs like this. If I'd listened to this in the first place, I wouldn't be

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