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				<DIV class="cap">The mission aims to tag the asteroid 99942 Apophis</DIV>
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			</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>A US team has won a $50,000 (£25,000) competition to design a spacecraft to rendezvous with and track the path of an asteroid which may threaten Earth.</B>
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<FONT size="2">The winning entry, led by SpaceWorks Engineering, will shadow asteroid Apophis for 300 days.
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<FONT size="2">The measurements it takes will be used to refine what is known about the orbit of this 300m-wide space rock.
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<FONT size="2">Apophis will make a close pass of Earth in 2029 and there is a small but real possibility it could hit in 2036.
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			<B>Apophis isn't science fiction, it isn't a blockbuster Hollywood movie; it is very real</B>
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	<DIV>Dan Geraci, The Planetary Society</DIV>
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The competition was organised by the Planetary Society, a space advocacy group with its headquarters in Pasadena, California.
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<FONT size="2">The idea behind the project was to "tag" Apophis and thereby plot its orbit accurately enough to determine whether it will strike our planet.</FONT></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/53AB17F6-B851-4AFD-A607-7961F5011044/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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