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Where did the flood waters come from and where did they go?

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06-07-2005 12:44 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Randy
06-05-2005 10:20 AM

Flood water from a comet?
1.5x10^20 kg of water translates to 1.5x10^17 cubic meters. For a comet to carry that much water, its nucleus would have had to have been about 650 km in diameter! (The Earth's "diameter" - the Earth isn't quite spherical - is roughly 12750 km).
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