http://clipmarks.com/clipper/reimers/date/2008/3/1/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/reimers/date/2008/3/1/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3F26744E-C63C-4A8E-8A01-2B6E48ECCCE5/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/reimers/">reimers</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/venus-mysteries-blamed-on-big-collision/20080301114709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001" title="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/venus-mysteries-blamed-on-big-collision/20080301114709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001">news.aol.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Venus is made of the same stuff of Earth, but is bone-dry, hot enough to melt lead and has a chokingly thick atmosphere. It even spins backwards.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="news_photogal pg_xl caption"> <DIV class="newsheader"> <H3>Photo Gallery</H3> </DIV> <DIV class="newsbody"> <DIV id="newsmaker_mod_315253" class="pic_contmain"> <DIV id="center_pic_mod_315253" class="center_pic"> <DIV id="ad_mod_315253" class="ad"></DIV> <DIV class="pic"><SPAN><IMG alt="" src="http://www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos/0c/05/20080103164509990031" id="pg_ImgMain_mod_315253" /></SPAN></DIV> <SPAN class="center_left" id="cl_Txt_mod_315253"></SPAN> <SPAN class="center_right" id="pg_credits_mod_315253">Keystone / ESA / NASA / HO / AP</SPAN> <DIV class="clear"></DIV> </DIV> <H3>Out-of-This-World<BR />Space Photos</H3> <DIV class="top_ftr"> <SPAN class="count" id="newsmakerTally_mod_315253">1 of 28</SPAN> <SPAN class="prev"><A href="#"> </A></SPAN> <SPAN class="nxt"><A href="#"> </A></SPAN> <DIV class="clear"></DIV> </DIV><DIV class="clear"></DIV> </DIV> <P id="center_pic_cont_mod_315253" class="center_pic_cont">Radar data from NASA's Magellan craft helped scientists stitch together this image of Venus. A scientist claims that protoplanetary bodies collided head-on, merging to form the planet. He says this can explain Venus' many mysterious properties.</P><DIV class="clear"></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Astronomers have spent decades trying to explain Venus' mysterious properties. Now one scientist thinks the planet's formation may explain all: Two huge, protoplanetary bodies collided head-on and merged to form our planetary neighbor, but obliterated nearly all water in the process.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>"The probability that two protoplanets collided to form Venus is not at all implausible," said John Huw Davies, a geodynamicist at Cardiff University in the U.K. who developed the idea.</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://news.aol.com/story/_a/venus-mysteries-blamed-on-big-collision/20080301114709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:16:55 GMT