Given that Apophis will come within around 20,000 miles of Earth, which is closer than many geostationary satellites currently in orbit, it’s natural to ask, will the Apophis asteroid hit Earth?

In 2029, a giant asteroid named Apophis will zoom past Earth, coming crazy close—closer than some satellites! Scientists say it won’t hit us (phew!), but the encounter could still be wild.

But what those confirmations didn’t take into account was whether or not Apophis would collide with other asteroids along the way. Obviously, if the giant asteroid Apophis were to collide with ...

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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. When scientists first discovered the asteroid 99942 Apophis in 2004, they also ...

When it passes us, it will be just 39,000 kilometres from surface of Earth. This distance is similar to where the TV broadcast satellites are placed in Earth’s orbit. Apophis was also behind a massive ...

The Apophis asteroid is getting faster as it heads towards Earth according to researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. Officially it is now under the Yarkovsky effect which ...