<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/2eca5f60-9f2d-4796-93ec-988b1ce1a05b/2E5C900C-35AE-4CEC-A9E7-B4E9350DE3B2/" 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://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html#"><P><A title="More articles about Jupiter (Planet)." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/jupiter_planet/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">Jupiter</A> took a bullet for us last weekend.</P></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://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html#"><DIV id="inlineMultimedia"> <H4>Multimedia</H4> <DIV class="story first"> <A href="javascript:pop_me_up2('http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/07/26/weekinreview/20090726_OVERBYE_GRFK.html', '1080_890', 'width=1080,height=890,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')"> <IMG width="190" height="126" border="0" alt="Jupiter Takes One for the Team" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/26/weekinreview/oberbye-promo.jpg" /><SPAN class="mediaType graphic">Graphic</SPAN> </A> <H2> <A href="javascript:pop_me_up2('http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/07/26/weekinreview/20090726_OVERBYE_GRFK.html', '1080_890', 'width=1080,height=890,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')">Jupiter Takes One for the Team</A> </H2> <DIV class="clear"></DIV> </DIV> </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://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html#">An object, probably a comet that nobody saw coming, plowed into the giant planet’s colorful cloud tops sometime Sunday, splashing up debris and leaving a black eye the size of the Pacific Ocean. This was the second time in 15 years that this had happened. The whole world was watching when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fell apart and its pieces crashed into Jupiter in 1994, leaving <A title="More articles about Earth (Planet)." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/earth_planet/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">Earth</A>-size marks that persisted up to a year.</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://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html#">That’s Jupiter doing its cosmic job, astronomers like to say. Better it than us. Part of what makes the Earth such a nice place to live, the story goes, is that Jupiter’s overbearing gravity acts as a gravitational shield deflecting incoming space junk, mainly comets, away from the inner solar system where it could do for us what an asteroid apparently did for the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. </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://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/weekinreview/26overbye.html#"><P>But is this warm and fuzzy image of the King of Planets as father-protector really true? </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E5C900C-35AE-4CEC-A9E7-B4E9350DE3B2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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