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This animation shows the distance between the Apophis asteroid and Earth at the time of the asteroid's closest approach. The blue dots are the many man-made satellites that orbit our planet, and the pink represents the International Space Station.
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, 13 April 2029.
Apophis is of interest because it’s an S-type, or stony, asteroid — different from other space rocks visited by NASA missions, including Bennu, which is a C-type, or carbonaceous, asteroid.
The official ESA RAMSES patch. Ramses, or Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety, is a proposed ESA mission to a near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.If approved, it is expected to be launched in April 2028, to arrive at Apophis in February 2029, before its closest approach to Earth.
Suffice to say those were heady days in the asteroid-tracking community. But as of March 2021, NASA has confirmed that there is absolutely zero chance the space rock known as 99942 Apophis will ...
A menacing asteroid named Apophis is projected to have a close encounter with Earth in 2029, but scientists have long ruled it out as an impact risk. ... according to NASA. Apophis is believed to ...
The close approach of 99942 Apophis (previously better known by its provisional designation 2004 MN 4) to the Earth and Moon on April 13, 2029 The white bar indicates uncertainty in the range of possible positions as of the 2007 observation data.
Radar Observations Refine the Future Motion of Asteroid 2004 MN4 (NASA News 149 : February 3, 2005) Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Sreejithk2000 using CommonsHelper . ( Original text: Created by me manually to copy :Image:2004mn4d4_s.gif .