Solar Winds Create Water on the Moon and other non-atmospheric bodies - Is this why COMETS are Icy???

This is just crazy cool. Solar winds produces water on airless bodies, in other words, celestial bodies without atmospheres. So, this would include planets like Mercury, as well as some of the larger asteroids. They discovered this while researching how water was on the moon. It was thought that only comets were responsible for water being found on places like the moon. But it's the SUN as well!

it is your post before that feels interesting in meaning



It burns in air to form only water as waste product

feels like aether process in code

Well, we knew how to get fire from ice already.

Now we know how to get ice from fire.

;) 5* my Bree-man.

clever

I wonder if this is a clue as to how comets get their ice.

Perhaps they have a rock like core and it is converted to ice through solar winds.

Thus the core slowly shrinks while the exterior of ice/core particles is always expanding.

Just rambling.

Ummm...this is a huge finding...

I'll give you a brief overview. They find this dying star, and surrounding the star is a GIGANTIC cloud of hot water vapor. Well, this type of star is called a carbon star, and they do not produce large volumes of water. So, the brilliant scientists thought the water cloud must have come from the sun evaporating comets (I know, that is a SHIT-TON of comets), or they thought the water vapor cloud may have come from dwarf planets in the star's vicinity.

But now they think they've figured it out.

Now, Herschel’s PACS and SPIRE instruments have revealed that the secret ingredient is ultraviolet light, because the water is too hot to have come from the destruction of icy celestial bodies. (the comets, the dwarf planets)...

...The superb sensitivity of Herschel’s instruments has revealed that the water around IRC+10216 varies in temperature from about –200°C to 800°C, which indicates that it is being formed much closer to the star than comets can stably exist...

The star...IRC+10216 is a red giant star, hundreds of times the Sun’s size, although only a few times its mass. If it replaced the Sun in our Solar System, it would extend beyond the orbit of Mars.

It is 500 light years away and while it is barely detectable at visible wavelengths, even in the largest telescopes, it is the brightest star in the sky at some infrared wavelengths. This is because it is surrounded by a huge envelope of dust that absorbs almost all its visible radiation and re-emits it as infrared light. It is in the envelope that the water vapour has been found. But how did the water get there?

The Herschel (satellite) water detection made the astronomers realise that ultraviolet light from surrounding stars can reach deep into the envelope between the clumps and break up molecules such as carbon monoxide and silicon monoxide, releasing oxygen atoms. The oxygen atoms then attach themselves to hydrogen molecules, forming water.

[link to www.esa.int]


IT IS ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT THAT CREATES WATER!!!

Stars create water, the building block of life...God, the universe is amazing...

The chemical reaction between the core structure and the radiation must involve Hydrogen being bonded with the Oxygen molecules within the core.

Is this an endothermic or exothermic reaction?

Probably endothermic because you have plenty of radiation bombarding the open system.

But now I am venturing into geochemistry which I failed the first time.

Dr. Popp and his fucking pop quizzes didn't mix well with my random attendance.

;)

Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans. The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the entire solar system and has made important contributions to the understanding of a number of processes including mantle convection, the formation of planets and the origins of granite and basalt

Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies chemical reactions which take place in a solution at the interface of an electron conductor (a metal or a semiconductor) and an ionic conductor (the electrolyte), and which involve electron transfer between the electrode and the electrolyte or species in solution.

This is not a plausible hypothesis.

H-O bound energy is 464kJ/mol.
Si-O bound energy is 621kJ/mol.

That means that a free proton wont strip that oxygen from silicate rocks.

Even though the high energy protons coming from the Sun have enough energy to form H-O from silicates, the then free silicon will READILY react with water.

That is the very reason you can not find free silicon in nature. Instead, most part of crustal rocks, on Earth and the Moon by common history, are silicates or oxygen and silicon bound together.

I wonder if this is a clue as to how comets get their ice.