Planning that retirement for 2036, though disturbed about an asteroid impact? Rest easy, contend NASA scientists after watching a asteroid Apophis this week and anticipating it won’t strike us.
Worried about an asteroid smacking into Earth in 2036? Rest easy, contend NASA scientists.
Observations done in a latest flyby of a asteroid Apophis, that sealed to within 9 million miles divided from Earth, combined to progressing measures that uncover a large space rock, roughly 350 yards wide, won’t hit with us anytime soon.
“(W)e have effectively ruled out a probability of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036,” said
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