Stardust evidence points to planet collision


	Stardust evidence points to planet collision

tabsey

9-20-2008 8:11 AM

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tabsey says:

A new possibility for the Armageddonites.

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9-20-2008 8:12 AM

BartendingBear

I wonder what the deductible and the comprehensive premiums on that would be.

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                        WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 
Masses of dust floating around a 
distant <SPAN id="lw_1221882297_0" class="yshortcuts">binary star system</SPAN> suggest that two Earth-like planets 
obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers 
reported on Friday.                        
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 "It's as if Earth and Venus collided with each other," 
Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the <SPAN id="lw_1221882297_1" class="yshortcuts">University of 
California Los Angeles</SPAN>, who worked on the study, said in a 
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 "Astronomers have never seen anything like this before; 
apparently major, catastrophic, collisions can take place in a 
fully mature planetary system."</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/planets_collision_dc_1"><P>
 Writing in the <SPAN id="lw_1221882297_2" class="yshortcuts">Astrophysical Journal</SPAN>, the team at <SPAN id="lw_1221882297_3" class="yshortcuts">UCLA</SPAN>, 
<SPAN id="lw_1221882297_4" class="yshortcuts">Tennessee State University</SPAN> and the <SPAN id="lw_1221882297_5" class="yshortcuts">California Institute of 
Technology</SPAN> said it spotted the dust orbiting a star known as BD 
+20 307, 300 million light-years from Earth in the 
constellation Aries.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/planets_collision_dc_1"><P>
 "If any life was present on either planet, the massive 
collision would have wiped out everything in a matter of 
minutes: the ultimate <SPAN id="lw_1221882297_6" class="yshortcuts">extinction event</SPAN>," said Gregory Henry of 
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