Scientists are currently keeping a close eye on a dangerous space rock, that has a small chance of slamming into our planet in 2029, and then again in 2036 and 2068. Recently, astronomers managed to take the first picture of the object in more than three years. According to calculations, the asteroid Apophis has a 1-... |
11 March 2011
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Recently, astronomers from the Russian Federation released a report arguing that the large asteroid Apophis will strike our planet in 2036. Now, experts at NASA have taken stage to refute those claims.
The American space agency decided to get involved in this controversy because the claims that were made are very ... |
4 February 2011
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As talk of setting up a worldwide asteroid-deflection system is intensifying, experts are continuing to present evidence of why such a defense network is needed. Recently, scientists highlighted the effects that a massive asteroid impact would have on our planet.
The experts were talking about a K-T extinction eve... |
30 January 2011
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According to a proposal made earlier this year at a scientific conference, it may be that one of the most effective ways of changing the path of dangerous asteroids that may beheading our way would be to deploy solar sails to nudge them off-course.On May 21 of this year, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAX... |
23 December 2010
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The asteroid Apophis is one of the most feared and investigated pieces of space rocks in the skies at this point, because astronomers calculated in 2004 that it might be possible for it to hit the Earth in the near future, around 2036. Because the asteroid has twice the size of a football field, a collision with it w... |
8 October 2009
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If an asteroid were to be discovered tomorrow and proven that it would impact the Earth in less than a week, we wouldn't be able to do much to prevent this from happening. All we can do so far is hope that such events do not occur any time soon. Deflecting asteroids from a possible Earth-threatening trajectory m... |
29 July 2008
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Yet another reminder of the dangers to which the Earth is subjected every day has been brought to our attention by the Arecibo Radio Observatory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's LINEAR search program which discovered earlier this year an asteroid expected to make a fly-by around Earth sometime tod... |
14 July 2008
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A few days ago, 13 year-old German Nico Marquardt seemed to have embarrassed all NASA scientists when he announced that the odds of asteroid Apophis hitting the Earth in 2036 have been greatly underestimated. The funny thing is that many sources rushed to state that NASA and the ESA confirmed the schoolboy's res... |
18 April 2008
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2004 MN4, or most popularly known as asteroid 99942 Apophis, is a near Earth asteroid discovered in December 2004. Apophis measures about 400 meters in diameter and upon its discovery, it was given a chance of 2.7 percent that it will hit our planet in 2029. On 19 October 2006, NASA estimated that Apophis had a chang... |
16 April 2008
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A pretty small prize, one would say, especially considering the implications of a large asteroid hitting the Earth in the near future. We may at least stay calm until the day of 13. April 2036, that is. This is the date when the largest asteroid orbiting through the close vicinity of the Earth may execute a fly-by ar... |
27 February 2008
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