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99942 Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN 4) is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object, 450 metres (1,480 ft) by 170 metres (560 ft) in size, [3] that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability of 2.7% that it would hit Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029.
For the asteroid named for an Egyptian god of chaos to pose a risk to Earth, it would need to be hit by another space rock at just the right angle to redirect the city-killer on a collision course.
The asteroid will come within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029. ... The asteroid was named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness and is believed to be shaped like a peanut.
Apophis is named after an Egyptian god of chaos and evil. If it were to hit Earth, chaos would be the least of our trouble. It’s 1,000 feet across, the size of a football stadium, and it’s ...
The asteroid for the second mission is named after the ancient Egyptian god Apophis, who was associated with chaos and destruction. [93] The mission name itself was a reference to the god Osiris. Dante Lauretta, deputy PI of the mission, was called "a mythology buff" by the mission PI Michael Drake: "he was doodling on a pad and trying to ...
Geraldine Pinch claims that a much later creation myth explained that, "Apophis sprang from the saliva of the goddess Neith when she was still in the primeval waters. Her spit became a snake 120 yards long." [4] But Apep was commonly believed to have existed from the beginning of time in the waters of Nu of primeval chaos. [5]
19521 Chaos is a cubewano, a Kuiper-belt object not in resonance with any planet. Chaos was discovered in 1998 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey with Kitt Peak's 4 m telescope. Occultations suggest it is a compact or contact binary equivalent to a sphere 400 to 500 km in diameter. [ 7 ]
An asteroid strike is a disaster; an asteroid flyby, an opportunity. ... In a nod to its horrifying potential, they named it Apophis, an Egyptian god of chaos. “We were shocked,” said Paul ...