Water Is Old

Scientists have found water older than Earth and Sun itself.

                 

                    On September 25, 2014, scientists have discovered that 30-50% of all of Earth's water is older than the solar system. The sun is approximately 4.6 billion years old. The earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old. We all know that water has a chemical make-up of two hydrogen and one oxygen. Water was discovered about 4 billion years ago. Water is already old but how much older can it really be?

                     In the beginning of the solar system, many asteroids and colossal chunks of rock and ice smashed in the Earth constantly. As all of this bombarding happen to the earth and all of the other planets, gravity would have pulled in objects from farther solar systems. Asteroids that would have been pulled in to the forming planets could have contained water frozen tens of degrees above absolute zero (-459 degrees Fahrenheit). Once the earth has cooled and is comfortable the water in the rock already from those early donors would have melted out of the earth's newly formed crust. In addition to all of the carbon dioxide and methane being pumped in to the air, it would have condensed in the first thunderstorms filling the earth of the most important element that helped create life.

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