The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
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This video depicts the flight path 99942 Apophis will take past Earth over 5 hours and 17 minutes on April 13 and 14, 2029. The blue dots are geostationary satellites in Earth orbit; the moon is too ...
In April 2029, a 20-million ton asteroid once thought to pose a potentially catastrophic collision risk with the Earth will fly by our home. Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos and evil and ...
Recent observations from the ATLAS survey revealed something unsettling: small space objects don’t always behave the way our ...