Apophis asteroid closest to colliding with Earth – AlKhaleej Today

It is a warning left by researchers at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, who examined the celestial body and realized that the speed at which it travels is increasing due to something known as the Yarkovsky effect.The asteroid about 370 meters long and named after the Egyptian chaos god, the scrambler, passes close to Earth periodically, usually in April and October.
Apophis is pushed by sunlight. The Yarkovsky effect of acceleration occurs when some parts of the asteroid heat…

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