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Will This Killer Asteroid Hit Earth in 2029? Scientists Say They'll Know for Sure by 2027
Rocky Future Don't panic, but the odds of a massive asteroid named Apophis smashing into Earth just got a little bit higher. Originally projected to harmlessly fly past us in a close approach, a new study published in The Planetary Science Journal suggests that there's actually a fraction of a chance that the 1,
'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints — but we won't know for 3 more years
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a collision course with Earth by another asteroid before it flies past our planet in 2029.
Fears city-killer ‘God of Destruction’ asteroid could hit Earth as experts warn of deadly deflection
EARTH could collide with its deadly cosmic neighbour, Apophis, an asteroid 1,100ft (335m) wide, should a rare chain event occur, according to a new study. Though it would be a one in a billion
Collisions could increase chance of 'God of Destruction' asteroid Apophis hitting Earth
A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.
Asteroid Apophis has the tiniest chance of hitting earth in 2029 – on a Friday the 13th
Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.
Can we spot every incoming asteroid before they hit Earth?
News of the asteroid 2024 RW1 impacting near the Philippines may have come as a shock this week, but space agencies and astronomers around the world are keeping an eye out to protect us
Asteroid Apophis to hit Earth in 2029 if it collides with other space rocks? What we know
Asteroid Apophis was initially discovered in 2004 and immediately became a talking point as potentially hazardous asteroids, which have widths of 460 feet or more and come within 20 lunar distances of the Earth.
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Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggests
Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...
Asteroid Bigger than the Dino-Killer Knocked the Solar System’s Largest Moon Sideways
T he asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...
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20x bigger than dinosaur-killer asteroid strike shifted axis of Jupiter’s largest moon
Roughly four billion years ago, a cataclysmic event shaped the largest moon in our solar system. This was the time when an ...
Asteroid 20 Times Bigger Than Dinosaur-Killer Altered Ganymede Forever, Study Finds
Scientists have recently discovered that Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, was struck by a massive asteroid ...
Titanic Asteroid 20x Larger Than Dinosaur-Killer Reshaped Solar System’s Largest Moon
A colossal asteroid impact on the Jupiter moon Ganymede not only reshaped its physical landscape but may have also altered ...
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Earth may once have had a planetary ring
C ould Earth once have had a planetary ring like the ones around Saturn? Scientists from Monash University in Australia think ...