<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/366fa193-7967-4ed6-b886-9b12e2ca8393/CCFBFAEF-B921-4FDF-8749-42357D729118/" 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://space.about.com/od/yearinreview/tp/2008TopNewsStories.htm" href="http://space.about.com/od/yearinreview/tp/2008TopNewsStories.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">space.about.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.about.com/od/yearinreview/tp/2008TopNewsStories.htm"><P>As the year 2007 drew to a close and we prepared to enter 2008, we asked you which news stories of 2007 really caught your interest. You responded and we present below your top 5 choices for Top Astronomy and Space News Stories of 2007.</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://space.about.com/od/yearinreview/tp/2008TopNewsStories.htm"><DIV class="lsItm"><H3>5. <A href="http://space.about.com/od/yearinreview/a/2007TopNEO.htm">NASA Can Not Pay for Killer Asteroid Hunt</A></H3><DIV class="lsImgS"><Q><A title="View Full-Size" target="_blank" href="http://z.about.com/d/space/1/0/3/W/toutatis.jpg"><IMG alt="Asteroid Toutatis - Not a Threat to Earth" src="http://z.about.com/d/space/1/6/3/W/toutatis.jpg" /></A></Q><CITE>NASA</CITE></DIV><DIV class="hasimg">In 2005, Congress asked NASA to create a plan to track most killer asteroids along with methods to deflect the potentially catastrophic ones. In March of 2007, NASA released a report, which basically said that this task was too expensive, so it would not get done. Due to insufficient funding by congress, <A href="http://space.about.com/b/2007/03/06/nasa-can-not-pay-for-killer-asteroid-hunt.htm">NASA Can Not Pay for Killer Asteroid Hunt</A>.<DIV class="lsLks"></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://space.about.com/od/yearinreview/tp/2008TopNewsStories.htm"><H3>4. <A href="http://space.about.com/od/yearinreview/a/2008TopHawking.htm">Stephen Hawking Experiences Weightlessness</A></H3></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/CCFBFAEF-B921-4FDF-8749-42357D729118/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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