Earth has finally been deemed safe from the potentially dangerous asteroid Apophis, which researchers believed would hit the planet by 2068.
“A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore, and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years,” Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a release last Friday, March 25.
Asteroid 99942 Apophis was first identified as a threat in 2004, after astronomers predicted it would come dangerously close to earth by 2029. It was thought to be the “most hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth.”
Years later, as researchers learned more about the asteroid’s orbit, its year of…
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