2007 WD5 Ready to Smash Mars


	2007 WD5 Ready to Smash Mars

BobbyDelray

12-21-2007 12:59 PM

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mars, asteroid, red planet, 2007 wd5

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12-21-2007 2:31 PM

obvious

Look out little robot!

12-21-2007 6:23 PM

kkcapricorn

I was going to clip this, but I knew some one had beat me to it.
What if it misses Mars and slams into earth?

Happy Holidays Bobby.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77fd88ca-8d9e-4592-af1f-6eb61fcdb8c3/173B0020-D134-43FC-82E4-40900D8F27C7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001" href="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001" style="font-size: 11px;">news.aol.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001">Mars could be in for an asteroid hit.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001">A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of
slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.aol.com/img/6F5BA744-6F13-4345-AB9D-50BE2AC7068C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001">"These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with
really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids," said
Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001">In 1994, fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smacked into
Jupiter, creating a series of overlapping fireballs in space.
Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another
planet.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/asteroid-may-smash-into-mars/20071221094409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001">The asteroid, known as 2007 WD5, was discovered in late November
and is similar in size to an object that hit remote central Siberia
in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb
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