Look what I read
" In 1998, two rocks zoomed through the Earth's atmosphere.
One plopped down in Monahans, Texas, near some boys
playing basketball. The other landed in Morocco, in a town
called Zag.
upon review by scientists from NASA
and other institutions, the Zag and Monahans meteorites turned
out to have something special: water.
When cracked open, the meteorites exhibit a purple area,
which turned out to be ordinary table salt, sodium chloride.
Cosmic rays had turned the area purple. Upon closer
inspection, scientists found droplets of salty water in the purple.
Zag and Monahans are of the most common type of
meteorite
that hits Earth, called chondrites. Scientists believe both came
from the same parent asteroid.
The existence of water on the meteorites suggests that water,
or evidence of water, may be present on many more meteorites
that fall on Earth. If this is the case, water may not be as rare in
the solar system as many scientists suggest"
Thanks John Reed
