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asteroid Apophis

Asteroid Apophis: Bigger, Darker But Not a Threat in 2036

January 11, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter During its close approach this week, observatories from ESA and NASA have made some updates on their assessment of asteroid Apophis and its future encounters with Earth. While the Herschel Space Telescope observations indicates the asteroid is bigger and less reflective [...]

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Astronomers Continue to Monitor Asteroid Apophis

March 10, 2011

Asteroid Apophis continues to be an object of interest for astronomers. Even though the possibility of an Earth impact by the now-famous asteroid has been ruled out during its upcoming close encounter on April 13, 2029, this close flyby will significantly change Apophis’s orbit, and astronomers are uncertain how that could affect future encounters with [...]

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Asteroid Apophis in the News Again

January 27, 2011

It must have been a slow news day in Russia yesterday (actually – and unfortunately — it wasn’t)… as headlines from one of Russia’s leading news agencies, Ria Novosti, proclaimed, “Russian Astronomers Predict Apophis-Earth Collision in 2036.” But reading the article a little further, the astronomer, Leonid Sokolov of St. Petersburg State University says the [...]

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2036 Asteroid

July 23, 2009

The 2036 asteroid is another name for the passage of the asteroid Apophis in the year 2036. Apophis is most famous for the stir it caused in 2004. The asteroid was discovered on its way towards the Earth and was predicted to have a 2.7% chance of impacting the Earth. That in and of itself [...]

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2029 Asteroid

July 20, 2009

You think you’ve had some creepy Friday 13th’s? Wait until the 2029 asteroid flies by the Earth on Friday, April 13th, 2029. You will be able to look up and count your blessings. The asteroid 2004 mn4 will pass within 30,000 km of the Earth’s atmosphere. That is a far cry from what astronomers first [...]

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