Scientists and astronomers are carefully watching asteroid Apophis as it approaches Earth – SYFY WIRE

This year has been an extremely active year for news of asteroids and comets with NASA’s OSIRIS-REX touching down on asteroid Bennu last month, and a veritable flurry of comets whizzing past our Big Blue Marble like F3 Neowise, F8 Swan, P1 Neowise, M3 Atlas, and S3 Erasmus arriving in the sky this fall.
Now a team of astronomers at The University of Hawaii is warning that there is a slim chance an asteroid named after Apophis, the Egyptian God of Chaos, might make close contact with Earth 48 years…

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