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Asteroid Over 1,000 Feet Wide Dubbed the ‘God of Chaos’ Could Strike Earth in 2068, Scientists Warn – Newsweek
Scientists have been closely monitoring the massive space rock since it was discovered in 2004.
A giant asteroid has a chance—albeit a very tiny one—of colliding with the Earth in 2068, a new analysis of the object shows.
Scientists say they have measured, for the first time, how a phenomenon known as “Yarkovsky acceleration” is affecting the orbit of the space rock—dubbed “99942 Apophis” after an ancient Egyptian “god of chaos”—as it circles the sun, according to research presented at the 2020 virtual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
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