<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://www.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/af3d71b6-1e1b-49b9-ad77-9baa04a09d0c/64FD74AF-09BF-417E-BB91-F46FFA42DA91/" 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.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/18/a-newly-discovered-comet-brings-tidings-from-the-oort-cloud/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/18/a-newly-discovered-comet-brings-tidings-from-the-oort-cloud/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/18/a-newly-discovered-comet-brings-tidings-from-the-oort-cloud/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: A Newly Discovered Comet Brings Tidings From the Oort Cloud" rel="bookmark" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/18/a-newly-discovered-comet-brings-tidings-from-the-oort-cloud/">A Newly Discovered Comet Brings Tidings From the Oort Cloud</A></H2></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.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/18/a-newly-discovered-comet-brings-tidings-from-the-oort-cloud/"><P><SPAN id="sharethis_0"><A class="stbutton stico_default" title="ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc." href="#"><SPAN class="stbuttontext">ShareThis</SPAN></A></SPAN> <IMG align="left" alt="comet from Oort Cloud" src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/files/2008/08/comet-from-oort-cloud.jpg" />Astronomers have spotted an icy object near Neptune that they say hails from the distant <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/Oort-Cloud/">Oort Cloud</A>, the distant reservoir of asteroids that encircles the solar system out beyond the orbit of Pluto. <FONT color="#003366">The object, at least 30 miles wide, is on the return leg of a 22,500-year journey around the sun, astronomers announced today [<A target="_blank" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080818-new-comet.html"><EM>SPACE.com</EM></A>].</FONT></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.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/18/a-newly-discovered-comet-brings-tidings-from-the-oort-cloud/"><P><FONT color="#003366">The new object is about 60 miles in diameter. “It’s basically a comet, but it never gets close enough to the Sun to develop a long, bright tail of evaporated gas and dust,” [lead researcher Andrew] Becker said in a statement [<A target="_blank" href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKN1843538920080818">Reuters</A>].</FONT> Researchers say the newly discovered voyager, which is currently going by the unromantic name 2006 SQ372, is the first object ever sighted from the inner Oort Cloud, a region that astronomers know very little about.</P></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/64FD74AF-09BF-417E-BB91-F46FFA42DA91/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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