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From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
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Subject: Re: Water ice found on the surface of comet 67P
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:30:11 +0000 (UTC)
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The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>Sam Wormley wrote:
>> 
>> Water ice found on the surface of comet 67P


>Here on the Earth it's called "ice water". Pleas don't use stupid NASA 
>unclear minds on Usenet.

No, "water ice" is the correct term.  They use it to distinguish between
ordinary ice made of water and frozen CO2, methane, nitrogen etc.  I don't
really agree with, for example, calling what they found on Pluto "nitrogen
ice" rather than simply frozen nitrogen, but that's what they do.