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[Guest_paulanderson_*]

This is the first source I've come across for this, an interview with Carey Michael Lisse, member of the Deep Impact Science Team and Principal Investigator for the Chandra X-Ray and Spitzer telescope Deep Impact spectrometer results:

http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID...ategory=Science

Interesting results, including 50% + water ice, limestone-like carbonates and amino acid precursors, just presented at the 9th International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference in Brazil.

[Bob Shaw]

This is the first source I've come across for this, an interview with Carey Michael Lisse, member of the Deep Impact Science Team and Principal Investigator for the Chandra X-Ray and Spitzer telescope Deep Impact spectrometer results:

http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID...ategory=Science

Interesting results, including 50% + water ice, limestone-like carbonates and amino acid precursors, just presented at the 9th International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference in Brazil.

Paul:

Some of the other articles are, er, 'interesting'. Let's hope the Deep Impact reportage is accurate!

NB, the Carbonates were explicitly described as being the result of a long, cold, watery process - nothing biological there, chaps!

Bob Shaw

[Guest_RGClark_*]

Paul:

Some of the other articles are, er, 'interesting'. Let's hope the Deep Impact reportage is accurate!

NB, the Carbonates were explicitly described as being the result of a long, cold, watery process - nothing biological there, chaps!

Bob Shaw

But the key fact is that carbonates require liquid water to form. On Earth everywhere we find liquid water we find life.


Bob Clark

[volcanopele]

But the key fact is that carbonates require liquid water to form. On Earth everywhere we find liquid water we find life.
  Bob Clark

On EARTH, everywhere we find liquid water we find life. Comet Tempel 1 is nothing like earth and one should be very careful comparing grapes to pumpkins.