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Water worlds in the making

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  • Roy van Boekel

    (Roy van Boekel is at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. boekel@mpia-hd.mpg.de)

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Meticulous observations of the disk of gas and dust around one young star seem to imply icy, comet-like bodies in the disk's inner regions. Could these be the building-blocks of water-rich planets like Earth?

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  • Roy van Boekel, 2007. "Water worlds in the making," Nature, Nature, vol. 447(7144), pages 535-536, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:447:y:2007:i:7144:d:10.1038_447535a
    DOI: 10.1038/447535a
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