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Asteroid Apophis Could One Day Hit Earth. Here’s How We Could Get to It First – Gizmodo Australia
The clock is officially ticking. Apophis — an asteroid as wide as three football fields — has a slim chance of slamming into Earth in 2068. Before then, however,…
The clock is officially ticking.
Apophis an asteroid as wide as three football fields has a slim chance of slamming into Earth in 2068. Before then, however, the object is scheduled to zip past us in an encounter that scientists are already planning to exploit. Here are some intriguing ways in which we could explore Apophis during its next close approach in 2029.
In just nine years, potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis will come to within 30,578 km of our planet. At one-tenth the distance…
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