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New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...
The infamous "God of Chaos" asteroid could be tipped onto a collision course with Earth, scientists have warned. The asteroid ...
Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be ...
It’s extremely unlikely that a massive asteroid will strike Earth anytime soon. According to one astrophysicist, however, ...
Asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the “God of Destruction,” will make a close approach to Earth in April 2029. Although the risk of ...
Apophis will come close enough to Earth to be seen with the naked eye in 2029, but a chance encounter with another asteroid ...
There are a slew of ways that life on Earth could come to an end, but a giant asteroid smashing into the planet, wiping out ...
The good news? The chance of an unknown asteroid hitting Apophis off its current course at all was less than one-in-a-million. And the odds that such an impact would send it hurtling toward ...
The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...