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In three to five sentences, describe how scientists use deductive and inductive reasoning to support the idea that water on Earth may have come from comets.

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Earth is rich in water, and has been for a few hundreds of years, but scientists are agreeing where all that life-sustaining liquid came from. At least some of it was thought to have been brought here by comets or asteroids, but that idea still falls short in explaining how so much water ended up on Pluto’s surface – and deep below, as well.

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