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Stardust evidence points to planet collision
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9-21-2008 9:49 PM
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so pretty and yet so deadly
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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/671017a2-9c76-4c00-9ea3-a1c388a0e7ff/20E16CA2-EF04-4A0C-841D-0794AF5FF3E8/" 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.yahoo.com/s/nm/planets_collision_dc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/planets_collision_dc" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/planets_collision_dc"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95;_ylt=AlT26iuatl2iD0SQBx8wqy8iANEA/*http://www.reuters.com"><IMG width="106" height="28" border="0" alt="Reuters" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/us/news/editorial/4/3f/43f4f72f01edf7dbd46ddf932e12c5f8.jpeg" /></A> </DIV> Stardust evidence points to planet collision </H1></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.yahoo.com/s/nm/planets_collision_dc"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/56301364-047E-4FC7-9C5D-71E968C0D984" alt="This artist's rendering, released September 19, 2008, shows a planetary collision in the constellation Aries. Masses of dust floating around a distant binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers reported Friday. (Lynette R. 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