Is the 'doomsday asteroid' Apophis going to hit Earth? NASA now has a definite answer (and the specific time)
Is asteroid Apophis ever going to hit Earth?
For a while, people had reason to worry. When astronomers first spotted it back in 2004, their early calculations showed a small, but not impossible, chance that it could smack into our planet. With a name like Apophis (the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction), the headlines basically wrote themselves. But the story’s changed since then, and dramatically so.
For a while, people had reason to worry. When astronomers first spotted it back in 2004, their early calculations showed a small, but not impossible, chance that it could smack into our planet. With a name like Apophis (the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction), the headlines basically wrote themselves. But the story’s changed since then, and dramatically so.
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