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We also analyzed one aubrite meteorite (Norton
he origin of Earth’s water is debated. The tered into the inner Solar System from beyond County), which represents an evolved planetary
isotopic composition of Earth suggests the orbit of Jupiter (10), potentially delivering body of enstatite meteorite composition for
that it is composed of material from the water to Earth during or after its main phase which metal-silicate segregation (differentiation)
inner Solar System, such as enstatite chon- of accretion, in the first few million years of had occurred (11). Hydrogen measurements
Fig. 2. Contributions
of accreting
materials to Earth’s
hydrogen budget in
three different
models. Values are
expressed in
equivalent ocean
masses, where one
ocean = 1.4 × 1021 kg
H2O. (A) A model
Earth comprising only
ECs (1). (B) A model
Earth comprising Fig. 3. Hydrogen isotopic compositions of
68% ECs and 32% meteorites compared with that of Earth’s man-
CCs (2). (C) A model tle and oceans. Data are shown for ECs (bulk rock
Earth comprising 71% and mesostasis) (purple); OC pyroxenes and
ECs, 24% OCs, and hydrous minerals (red); and CCs (bulk rock and CI,
5% CCs [the most CM, and CV types) (blue). Mes, mesostasis; Pyrox,
extreme case from pyroxene. Meteorite data are from (7, 12, 21, 31) and
(3)]. The consistency this study (tables S2 and S4). Values for Earth’s
of such models for mantle (dD = –220 to –20‰) (green shaded area)
the isotopic com- are from (26), with the most D-depleted values
position of the mantle reported in (28). Primitive mantle dD values range
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