<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/124ba0d6-79ac-4725-a2b6-b34b1215dccf/8242CACC-2E17-4B82-862D-6525CCBCBF69/" 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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/apophis-close-but-no-impact-with-earth.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/apophis-close-but-no-impact-with-earth.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/apophis-close-but-no-impact-with-earth.html"><P><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0120a625d11b970c-pi"><IMG title="Apophis1" height="240" alt="Apophis1" hspace="0" src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0120a625d11b970c-800wi" width="300" vspace="0" border="0" /></A> <EM>“The threat of the Earth being hit by an asteroid is increasingly being accepted as the single greatest natural disaster hazard faced by humanity.” </EM><BR /><BR />Nick Bailey of the University of Southampton's School of Engineering Sciences team</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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/apophis-close-but-no-impact-with-earth.html"><P>Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of the Apophis asteroid -approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036..</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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/apophis-close-but-no-impact-with-earth.html">"Apophis has been one of those celestial bodies that has captured the public's interest since it was discovered in 2004," said near-Earth object scientist Steve Chesley at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million."<BR></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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/apophis-close-but-no-impact-with-earth.html">Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our </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/8242CACC-2E17-4B82-862D-6525CCBCBF69/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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