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posted by martyb on Monday May 06 2019, @04:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the planning-ahead dept.

A 1,110-foot-wide asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos (and possibly a Stargate SG-1 character) will fly past Earth in 2029 within the distance of some orbiting spacecraft, according to reports.

The asteroid, 99942 Apophis, will come within 19,000 miles of Earth on April 13, a decade from now, but scientists at the Planetary Defense Conference are already preparing for the encounter, Newsweek reported. They plan to discuss the asteroid's effects on Earth's gravity, potential research opportunities and even how to deflect an incoming asteroid in a theoretical scenario.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/1110-foot-asteroid-to-pass-near-earth-in-2029


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @05:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @05:09AM (#839512)

    Nm, I misread the wikipedia page. High earth orbit is over 22k miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_orbit [wikipedia.org]

    So this thing is coming closer than some satellites,