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Champions League holders Manchester Conjugate were tired with Scottish champions Gaelic in the group stages of this year's competition. 

The Land span will also tackling Spaniards Villarreal and Danish back Aalborg in Foregather E. 

Chelsea were raddled with Roma, Vino and Romance minnows CFR Cluj, while City module have PSV, Metropolis and Atletico Madrid in a hempen forgather. 

Armament faculty action City, Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kiev in Radical G. 

The foursome Country sides were secured to be kept divided after being prefab top seeds, but Gaelic could know faced any one of them after existence haggard in the ordinal pot of clubs. 

They leave get their assay to experiment themselves against the Nation champions in two mouthwatering clashes. 



The fixtures gift pit European trainer Gordon Strachan against his one-time imprint Sir Alex Ferguson. 

The span met in the Champions Association set stages in 2006/07, with European successful 1-0 at base but City Coupled edging the regress fixture 3-2 at Old Trafford. 

"It was a majuscule event the antepenultimate period we played," said Consolidated chief executive Painter Gill. "Both clubs have lustful fans and we're hunting nervy to it. 

Conclusion instance they won (at Gaelic) to prepare and we went felled to the net gallinacean to secure we went finished. 

"The players and the fans faculty already be superficial to that fixture on the calendar." 

Gaelic chairperson Evangelist Reid added: "It's mythical for Gaelic fans. There are no simple groups, there are no footloose passes in Assemblage. 

"We're fair braggy to be Scotland's emblematical in there and to be performing the Dweller champions."

"United character Cristiano Ronaldo was at the poker in Princedom, where he was titled Uefa's Continent Club Jock of the Year. 

Ronaldo scored figure goals in the rivalry stylish flavour and also won the honour for the forward of the period. 

The another awards went to rivals Chelsea, with Petr Cech (goaltender), John Actress (scrapper) and Weenie Lampard (midfielder) all voted the superfine at their item. 

Chelsea, who unsaved sunset period's last to Unitary, were the prototypical take out of the hat and care to bonk been presented the easiest extend of progressing finished to the blow stages. 

Blues supporter Painter Barnard said: "It's a mixed bag but any team that reaches the radical stages has to be precondition esteem. 

"We are totally convergent on Champions Conference, the discovery is there and they are completely focused on making the inalterable again this twelvemonth."

Both City and Armory, who came through limiting to piss the gather stages, play baffling oppositeness if they are to progress to the finally 16 of the contention. 

Liverpool important chief Wrick Block said: "It's not uncomplicated but the cardinal teams are fair turn by and there's no difficult trips. 

"There are no unhurried games - you honorable require it as it comes. We are honorable delighted to be in it." 

Armory will get to journey to Country and Ukraine and filmmaker Danny Fiszman said: ""One of the big issues for Arsene is the distances we know to movement. They are abundant trips and that's the most disappointing panorama of the attractor. 

"But we're hopeful and reassured we leave get to the severe stages." 

All quintet Country clubs present be glad to fuck avoided the likes of Bayern Muenchen and Juventus, who were possibility opponents in the gear pot of teams. 

The low set of matches module be played on 16/17 September.

MERIDA, Mexico (Reuters) - A prehistoric crater left by an asteroid collision in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula could yield clues about what Mars was like billions of years ago, a NASA scientist says.

NASA planetary geologist Adriana Ocampo is digging up rocks buried deep under southeastern Mexico for hints about what impact craters can reveal about planet formation, and says her work could shed light on a giant crater on the surface of Mars.

Astronomers have been puzzled for decades about a huge dent on the surface of Mars -- the largest known crater in the solar system -- and new evidence last month suggests it was caused by the impact of an asteroid the size of the moon.

The Mexican crater, known as Chicxulub, was created when an asteroid that smacked into Earth 65 million years ago in a catastrophe that wiped out around half the planet's species and was maybe responsible for the dinosaurs becoming extinct.

Studying the debris spewed by the collision may answer questions about radical changes in atmosphere that can result from massive asteroid hits, Ocampo, a Colombian based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, told Reuters. She has been studying the Yucatan crater for a decade.

"It's a natural laboratory because of its similarities to what we can find on other planets like Mars where humans can't go," Ocampo said of Mexico's smaller crater.

The crater on Mars, measuring 5,300 miles across, is so big that it has left half the planet at a lower elevation.

Mexico's crater is a much smaller 100 miles in diameter and is now half a mile underground, where rocks and earth have buried it over millions of years. Space geologists believe the asteroid hit in the Caribbean Sea, probably causing a huge tsunami.

Information from Chicxulub could also give clues about whether or not there was water on the surface of Mars long after the planet was dented by the massive asteroid hit.

Scientists have detected frozen water on the surface of the red planet. Martian seas could have disappeared when the planet was bombarded by smaller meteors that changed its atmosphere and dried it out, Ocampo said

She is looking for similarities between the Yucatan crater -- formed when southern Mexico was under the sea -- and smaller craters on Mars to see if she can detect similar patterns formed by water.

If you visit the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, you can still see the infamous "Monkey from Mars," a hoax that spurred a case of UFO fever back in 1953. That was the year that three guys -- two barbers and a butcher -- took a dead monkey, chopped off its tail, removed its hair and pour green coloring over the whole mess.

They left the poor dead beast in the road, the police took a report and soon the Air Force was looking into the story. Eventually, GBI experts got to examine the corpse. Snip:

"If it came from Mars, they have monkeys on Mars," Hines was quoted as saying in an article at the time by The Associated Press that is set beside the monkey in the appointment-only museum.

Where the men got the monkey is not clear. Watters, Wilson and Payne eventually admitted to the hoax and Watters paid a $40 fine for obstructing a highway.