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Large asteroid Apophis will safely fly by Earth on Friday – Space.com

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Our solar system’s most infamous asteroid
will pass by Earth on Friday (March 5), and with a high-end telescope you can watch it as it safely whizzes by our planet.
We’re talking about none other than asteroid 99942 Apophis
, which will come even closer to Earth on April 13, 2029, when it passes through the zone of high-altitude satellites
. But even then, Apophis won’t hit Earth as some had predicted so instead, let’s focus on what science is coming from these flybys.
The near-Earth asteroid is…

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