<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/5b6d222c-2a0b-4777-939c-dc36e3cf4273/BA29E34E-86DD-4584-A3A1-8E8191B9C48F/" 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://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/01/maybe-the-sky-i.html" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/01/maybe-the-sky-i.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.abcnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/01/maybe-the-sky-i.html"><P><A href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/28/e305concept_jan_2008_2.jpg"><IMG width="218" height="170" border="0" src="http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/images/2008/01/28/e305concept_jan_2008_2.jpg" title="E305concept_jan_2008_2" alt="E305concept_jan_2008_2" /></A> So there's an American spy satellite -- its actual mission, orbit and size not made public -- which has lost power and, like all other objects in low Earth orbit, is gradually losing altitude because of friction with the tenuous atmosphere that exists even hundreds of miles up. </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://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/01/maybe-the-sky-i.html"><P>First of all, the chance of harm to human beings is very small, if only because 70 percent of the planet's surface is water, and most of the land is mountain, desert, farmland or frozen tundra.  We earthlings crowd onto only a few percent of the space down here.</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://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/01/maybe-the-sky-i.html"><P>The vast majority of satellites are completely vaporized as they re-enter the atmosphere. </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://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/01/maybe-the-sky-i.html">There was a woman named Lottie Williams, in Tulsa, Okla., who felt a soft tap on the shoulder when she was out walking one night; NASA decided the burnt piece of debris she found on the ground was lightweight insulation from a rocket nozzle. We interviewed her in 1999 and she said she was disappointed.  (I checked back recently and was told she is still unique.)</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/BA29E34E-86DD-4584-A3A1-8E8191B9C48F/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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