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Seriously- its a snow-flake, as in something snow bally like Halley's Comet - that would emit vapours under light pressure? What is this, if you disprove your own thesis in the prelude of your article? Scientific slapstick?



Sounds like it might be a giant rock-dust flake. Maybe the whole thing is held together by vacuum welding?


If you imagine a dirty snowball, then sling it past a star so that all the ice melts and leaves, you might be left with something vacuum welded together, but very fluffy for its size. Perhaps the same time that it lost all its volatiles is also what ejected it from some system, a slingshot around some other star.


That wouldn't be terribly different from how Aerogels are made.




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