# s-astro: old, very old water

<< As much as half of all the water on Earth may have come from that interstellar  gas  according  to astrophysicists ’ calculations. That means the same liquid we drink and that fills  the  oceans  may be millions  of  years  older  than the  solar  system  itself. >>

Nicholas St. Fleur. The Water in Your Glass Might Be OlderThan the Sun.  April 15, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/science/the-water-in-your-glass-might-be-older-than-the-sun.html

L.  Ilsedore  Cleeves ,  Edwin  A.  Bergin ,  et al. The  ancient  heritage  of  water  ice  in  the  solar  system. Science    26 Sep 2014: Vol.  345,  Issue  6204,  pp.  1590-1593 DOI:  10.1126/science.1258055

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6204/1590