<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/fc9bdb41-2a96-43ea-886a-6a87acec0bdd/675FB2D5-BD89-4D7F-B9EF-EA7307902BDB/" 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.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.livescience.com/img/B0571B40-2737-4F88-9A96-4BC7EBE0FC1B" 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://www.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html"><SPAN>New radar observations have revealed that a near-Earth asteroid is actually three rocks.</SPAN></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.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html"><SPAN>The system, <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=090807-neo-1994cc-02.jpg&cap=Radar+imaging+at+NASA%27s+Goldstone+Solar+System+Radar+on+June+12+and+14%2C+2009%2C+revealed+that+near-Earth+asteroid+1994+CC+is+a+triple+system.+Credit:+NASA%2FJPL%2FGSSR">asteroid 1994 CC</A>, was imaged by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14. The results were released this week.</SPAN></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.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html"><SPAN>While <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=286&gid=22">most asteroids</A> roam in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, some are kicked or drawn inward and cross our orbital path around the sun. Some 15 percent of these near-Earth asteroids are binaries. Even fewer, a mere one percent, are triples.</SPAN></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.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html"><SPAN>1994 CC, which came within 1.56 million miles (2.52 million km) of Earth on June 10 (about six times farther away than our moon), is only the second triple system known in the near-Earth population.</SPAN></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.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html"><P><SPAN>The three-rock setup consists of a central object about 2,300 feet (700 meters) in diameter that has two smaller moons revolving around it. Preliminary analysis suggests that the satellites are at least 164 feet (50 m) in diameter.</SPAN></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.livescience.com/space/090807-triple-asteroid.html"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Asteroids are often loose rubble piles rather than </SPAN></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/675FB2D5-BD89-4D7F-B9EF-EA7307902BDB/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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