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| Name | The 'God of Chaos' Asteroid is Heading Towards Earth |
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| Video Discription | SUBSCRIBE HERE ➜ http://bit.ly/AstroBytes INSTAGRAM ➜ https://www.instagram.com/astrobytez/ FACEBOOK ➜ https://www.facebook.com/astrobyte TWITTER ➜ https://www.twitter.com/astrobytez Astronomers keep a careful watch on the skies, hoping to spot potential impactors far enough in advance so that we can do something about it. But you might have heard of the massive asteroid known as Apophis before. Apophis, also known as the “God of Chaos,” is an interesting asteroid. This mountain-sized asteroid might hit Earth in 2068. It is predicted that it would take 48 years for this asteroid to hit Earth. While it was first calculated that the asteroid would just miss our planet by a slim margin, new information has revealed a possibility of Apophis colliding with Earth. This new calculation is largely due to scientists factoring in the Yarkovsky effect, which essentially means that asteroids can actually speed up in space, based on its chemical composition. Radioactive materials can give the asteroid a slight boost in space which alters its trajectory ever so slightly. It is already known that Apophis is about 300 meters long and made up mostly of solid metal, this is the type of asteroid we would like to avoid. In the course of these long 48 years, Apophis will make an “extremely close” fly-by on April 13, 2029, where it will be visible to the naked eye. Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004, by astronomers at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Since then, astronomers are continuously monitoring the asteroid as it orbits the sun. Before the discovery, the impact was said to impossible, but the new findings suggest the asteroid has a chance of crashing into Earth on April 12, 2068. If it hits earth, the results could be catastrophic. The asteroid is more than 1,000 feet wide and an impact would be equivalent to 880 million tons of TNT exploding all at once. This would make it 65,000 times more destructive than the Hiroshima nuclear disaster. Credit: NASA/ESA |
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