how did water appear in Earth and how did we end up with such vast amount of it?

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how did water appear in Earth and how did we end up with such vast amount of it?

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We’re not exactly sure, but a leading theory is asteroids with water bombarded the Earth and provided the bulk of the water, with a significant fraction coming from comets and maybe 1-2% from the solar nebula (the disc of gas surrounding the sun).

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