> On Feb 23, 2016, at 11:31 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> As has been mentioned before; it seems to me that the biggest problem would be the purity of the 'ice'.
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> I'd think that It's bound to be 'dirty' in various ways, contaminated w/ who knows what unstable volatiles…

Well we have some real-world data on this stuff:

https://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/i29/8429notw1.html

If they find something like Pluto, they’re golden because there’s a ton of water ice there.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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