Some 15-20 years ago there was a hoopla in the news about waterballs frequently strikng the earth. Fro this I inferred there were waterballs throughout the space of the universe. The waterballs were later said to be fluffy water balls. One account said pilots frequently see flashes of light in the stratosphere which were suspected to be these "balls" hitting the earth.
2006-11-24 07:32:43 · 4 answers · asked by syrious 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
I've never heard of any such thing, and neither "fluffy waterballs" nor "fluffy water balls" returns a single result on Google. ("Waterballs" and "water balls" do, but the results are mostly about snow globes and such.) The only "balls" of water commonly known to hit the ground are raindrops.
That being said, there's no reason to assume that water would exist on any particular planet.
2006-11-24 07:41:46 · answer #1 · answered by bgdddymtty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mercury and Venus are far too hot for water to exist except possibly at the polar regions. As for the rest of the solar system it is believed that most if not all of the other planets have or have had water on them in some form. As well as several moons.
The most likely is Mars to have any liquid water which is why the current focus is to look for it there. The reason liquid is so desired is that anywhere on earth that there is liquid water there is some kind of life form. Because of this fact in the search for places to visit (mankind going to) focuses on liquid water in stead of ice or steam. If there is liquid water on a planet it can very likely support some kind of life; perhaps even human colonies in the future.
As for that hypothesis about giant "snow balls" hitting the earth every year, it has been pretty well debunked as no one has ever seen one. It would be a huge meteorite and some of them would hit at night to be seen as they burn up in the earth's atmosphere. So far after 17 years of this idea, none have been sighted.
It is very likely that smaller "snow balls" strike the earth as meteorites left over from comets that cross earth's orbital plane. We see these as meteor showers in the fall.
2006-11-24 07:47:15 · answer #2 · answered by my_iq_135 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There *IS* water on almost every other planet. Water can exist in a gaseous state as well as a solid state. If you're asking why there is not *liquid* water on all planets, it is because they are either too far or too close to the sun to support liquid water. Even so, Europa and a few other moons of the solar system may have liquid water on them.
2006-11-24 07:43:42 · answer #3 · answered by The Wired 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard about it.
2006-11-27 19:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by ghsalamatbashi2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋