Water carried on asteroids are common

[irishspirit]

Frozen water on asteroids may be more common than previously thought, according to new research that will help to support the idea they might have carried the key ingredient for life to the Earth.

Water ice and organic molecules that help to form the basis of life have been discovered on a second asteroid, called 65 Cybele, by astronomers.

The finding was reported at a meeting of planetary scientists in Pasadena, where scientists said the presence of ice lends support to theories that life on Earth was seeded from out of space after being carried here on asteroids.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8052528/Water-carried-on-asteroids-are-common.html

[tazjet]

It would not surprise me if the DNA inside all living creatures on earth arose from a planet which once orbited where the asteroid belt now meanders around the sun. If there is water in these asteroids then there is likely also freeze dried bacteria.

I suspect life is a virus that spreads through the universe like rust attacking a car...

My car especially. You should have seen how much plastic bog I had to sand down last week. :p