Pure metal asteroid has mysterious water deposits

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 07:01 in Astronomy & Space

Water has been showing up in all sorts of unexpected places in our solar system, such as the Moon, Mercury and Saturn's moon Ganymede. Add one more place to the list: Asteroid 16 Psyche. This metal-rich asteroid may have traces of water molecules on its surface that shouldn't be there, researchers say.

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