Asteroid Apophis an Earth impactor?

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Asteroid Apophis an Earth impactor?

3 November 2005, 23:22

Asteroid Apophis: Dealing with Earth's Future Troublemaker

http://www.space.com/news/051103_asteroid_apophis.html

BOULDER, Colorado – The potential for a newly discovered asteroid smacking into the Earth in 2036 cannot be discounted. NASA has sketched out a response strategy in the outside possibility that the space rock becomes a true threat.

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4 November 2005, 05:34

Strangely appropriate name.

Hopefully, this relatively smaller one will give scientists the chance to develop techniques for dealing with the behemoth's that could follow.

Last edited by High_Jumbllama; 4 November 2005, 18:43.
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