One of the surprising anomalies of 3I/ATLAS is its exceedingly high fraction of deuterium, amounting to one deuterium (D) in 100 hydrogen (H) atoms in water (as reported here) and one deuterium in 30 hydrogen atoms in the organic molecule of methane (as reported here). The latter value of D/H fraction of 3.3% is a …
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