ESA - ESA'S Ramses Mission To Asteroid Apophis

About Apophis Asteroid

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 0.027 2.7 that it would hit Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029. Additional observations provided improved predictions

The asteroid 99942 Apophis has been a subject of great concern since its discovery in 2004, especially after NASA calculated the impact at its closest approach to Earth on August 13, 2029, at 2.7 .

Thanks to additional observations of the near-Earth object NEO, the risk of an impact in 2029 was later ruled out, as was the potential impact risk posed by another close approach in 2036. Until this month, however, a small chance of impact in 2068 still remained. On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass less than 20,000 miles

Asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. Near-Earth asteroid Apophis is a potentially hazardous asteroid that will safely pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. It will come about 20,000 miles 32,000 kilometers from our planet's surface closer than the distance of many satellites in geosynchronous orbit about

The Apophis asteroid has been a subject of fear and fascination ever since its discovery. With its close approach to Earth scheduled for 2029, many have speculated on the potential dangers this

The simulations revealed that the chance of an unknown asteroid hitting Apophis off its current course was less than one-in-a-million, while the odds that such an impact quotcould significantly

Asteroid 99942 Apophis is a 370-meter-wide space rock that will make one of the closest flybys of Earth ever recorded when it passes within 32,000 km of our planet in April 2029closer than some satellites. Originally feared to be a potential impact threat, Apophis has since been ruled out for collision, but its passage offers a once-in-a-lifetime scientific opportunity to study near-Earth

Further observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when Apophis makes the close flyby to Earth in April 2029. There's also no risk during another

The impact of a small asteroid on Apophisthough very unlikelywould create a small impulsive change in the velocity of that asteroid. Such an asteroid strike on Apophis would be the natural analog of the kinetic impact process by which a 2.70 0.10 10 3 m s 1 velocity change was imparted to asteroid Dimorphos by the Double

It definitely will miss Earth in 2029 and 2036, and radar observations of Apophis during the asteroid's flyby in March 2021 ruled out an impact for at least the next 100 years. An asteroid over Chelyabinsk This artist's rendering shows an 18-meter-wide asteroid exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013.