By Timur Abimanyu, SH.

MH

The Washington Post

Apophis Asteroid Not a Danger but ‘A

real chance’ for Study
Russian scientists last week said that the Apophis asteroid may collide with the earth in 2036
but a report came out this week which said the chance of it strikingthe earth is highly
unlikely.And, if the object gets close enough, it would be a good research opportunity, a space
scientist told the International Business Times.Apophis, at its closest point in 2029, will be at
least 18,300 miles away from the Earth. Dan Durda, a scientist with the Southwest Research
Institute in Colorado, told the Times that he submitted a proposal to NASA to send a
spacecraft to the asteroid and learn more about it."It's a real chance to study this kind of
object," Durda told the publication.

Durda added that a mission to probe the asteroid would have to be launched in 2021 due to
Apophis’s tilted orbit. Real Danger?
Life’s Little Mysteries, sister site of Space.com, reported that there is just a 1-in-250,000
chance that the object, which is around 900-feet-long, will strike the earth in 25 years, citing
NASA scientists.In 2029, Apophis will fly close to the Earth and “will be quite an event.”
However, that the possibility of it strikingthe earth has been “ruled out,” Donald Yeomans,
the chief of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office told Life’s Little Mysteries.But if
the asteroid goes through “what we call a keyhole during that close Earth approach … then it
will indeed be perturbed just right so that it will come back and smack Earth on April 13,
2036,” Yeomans said, adding that the chances of entering this gravitational “keyhole” is
“miniscule,” Space reported. Professor Leonid Sokolov at St. Petersburg State University told
the publication Science it is unlikely that Apophis will hit Earth because the asteroid will
probably break up into fragments before then . By Jack Phillips and Cassie Ryan, Epoch Times Staff

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Illustration: by Timur Abhimanyu, SH.MH
If indeed the asteroid will fall upon the earth, which is based on scientific research space
agency (Nasa) is true, then This is the end of human life on Earth .... but if people believe in
God ... at any time it fell on earth asteroids. . because God is aware of everything ... the day
late / Judgement is only God's eternal power.

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