There are millions of asteroids floating in our Solar System. Every year thousands of meteorites weighing about a pound fall on Earth. Usually we don’t see them, because they land in uninhabited forests or the ocean. However, in 2004 scientists discovered a really dangerous asteroid in space weighing more than 20-million-tons or 40-billion-pounds. The first observations show it has a 2.7% of chance of hitting us in 2029. If an asteroid this big hit the Earth, it would cause major devastation ove

Apophis' Crazy Close Approach To Earth In 2029. | Cosmoknowledge

99942 APOPHIS •• The Odds of the Unthinkable by Ben Cassese - 30.8.24 VIDEO: Illustration of the cases where one impulse Δv = 10−1 m s−1 from a small asteroid impact has been applied to Apophis. The nominal (unperturbed) case is highlighted by a green reticle. Cases leading to Earth impact are indicated by an orange reticle. This figure is a single frame of an animation showing the approach of the asteroid and clones to Earth. The animation is approximately 20 s long and shows the relative posit