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The asteroid Apophis 99942, discovered in 2004, has a trajectory calculation estimating that in the year 2029, Apophis will fly only 30,000 to 40,000 km from the Earth. At that time the asteroid won't hit the Earth, but planet's gravity will affect its trajectory and in 2035 Apophis will probably hit the our planet.

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Tuishimi
June 14, 2007, 7:12 p.m.
I sank this one because it is basically a FUD article. As someone else stated, the chance this asteroid will hit Earth (NASA report) is 1 in 45000 (next time around).
I think, I HOPE the government will inform the population when a real threat is discovered.
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not2needy
June 14, 2007, 8:25 p.m.
It may not actually happen, but it's still very interesting and bound to happen someday.
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stephen-johnson
June 14, 2007, 11:15 p.m.
Major asteroid hits occured 65 million years ago (Yucatan) and 225 million years ago (Antarctica). Both caused major extinctions of many species. This asteroid isn't nearly as big as those two, but still....
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newstrackern
June 14, 2007, 11:20 p.m.
wow that could be delightfull to watch
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KSUmarksman
June 14, 2007, 11:36 p.m.
I wouldn't worry,
I'm sure Major Carter has a plan...
get it... apophis...Carter...my resemblence to a certain sarcastic colonel ; )
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BoxMonkey
June 14, 2007, 11:38 p.m.
I just can't wait . FUD - f-cked up directions .
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foksipayne
June 15, 2007, 12:02 a.m.
Ha ha, sounds like Stargate-SG1! sending ppl into space to destroy Apophis. Maybe the show predicted this? LOL
I'm sorry if it really does wind up hitting us, but you gotta admit that is kinda humorous!
I voted cuz it's something to ponder on, more destruction? seems all that's on anybody's mind anymore.
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p0ison_m1nd
June 15, 2007, 2:52 a.m.
"The asteroid won't hit the Earth, but planet's gravity will affect its trajectory and in 2035 Apophis will probably hit the our planet. That is the biggest danger for us in past 200 years. Even if asteroid will flies a safe distance away from Earth, it can be bad for our planet."
I don't want to sound like a grammar nazi but doesn't anyone proof read anymore?
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nostalgia
June 15, 2007, 7:53 a.m.
NASA advised Congress on steps that could be taken to find and divert threatening asteroids only to conclude that it couldn't afford them.
More troublesome is the threat of smaller asteroids, greater than 460 feet in diameter (about 1/7th the threshold of the really scary big ones), that could devastate a region but not the whole globe. NASA estimates that some 20,000 of these might be potentially hazardous; it has identified only a fraction of them. Two years ago Congress asked NASA to propose new search programs and to analyze ways to divert asteroids on a collision course with Earth. The agency did that in a March report to Congress but balked at the notion of spending up to $1 billion or more to build search instruments or spacecraft.
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/news_detail.cfm?ID=172
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Pyramids2Projects
June 15, 2007, 8:34 a.m.
All we need are Ben Afleck, Bruce Willis and a crazy team of diggers to destroy the astroid.LOL
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worthlesswhiteman
June 15, 2007, 9:02 a.m.

Well at least that will settle things. My sh*t *ss so called retirement account won't have to last that long. Great story....makes me feel good that there is a solution.
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gfarral
June 15, 2007, 10:54 a.m.
The scientists have 12 years to develop protection theories and methods then test them out when the asteroid passes by.
One method was the use of sunlight and lasers I believe.
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MongoKahn
June 15, 2007, 11:20 a.m.
The pockmarked rocks "they" tell you about are sure to miss. By a mile or a million, a miss is a miss. The ones they don't tell you about, are the ones that'll give you a bad hair day. The ones that "they" don't know about, come with sun blinding their eyes like a dogfighter pilot "coming out of the sun" to pounce on his prey. The way I see it every day I get up I fully realize could be my last day. I live every day as if it were. It makes me more polite, less likely to fight and more forgiving.
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KeyserSooze
June 15, 2007, 12:02 p.m.
According to an article posted here as "science" last week, the Mayans predicted the world will end in 2012, and according to supporters of the ridiculous piece we should believe them, so 2029 is not a problem. We won't be here.
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UBCONFUSE
June 15, 2007, 12:02 p.m.
How about this, when it flys by, coordinate an intercept to have a nuclear device trail the object until it is far away and going away from Earth, then explode the nuke and use the shock wave to eject Apopsis from the near earth orbit? Will this work anyone?
Alex Baldwin, Sean Penn and a few other really BIG STARS, would make excellent bomb pilots.
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PsychoHosebeast
June 15, 2007, 3:17 p.m.
It's actually pretty arrogant to consider that after billions of years, one would be lucky enough to be present at the end of the world.
Unfortunately you don't get to tell anyone about it afterward.
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toph1973
June 15, 2007, 4:36 p.m.
If it does hit I'm hoping it hits dead center of Mecca. Is that wrong?
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usdandy
June 25, 2007, 11:10 a.m.
A great article.