Apophis will face Earth in 2068?

99942 Apophis will fly across the Earth in 2029 and 2036, but it will probably crash into the green planet in 2068 , RIA Novosti on February 25 leads research published on the Aviation and Universe Agency's website. US cylinder (NASA).

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Apophis's ability to attack Earth is relatively low, but this devastating scenario is entirely possible with a probability of 2.3 to 1 million by 2068.

Apophis asteroid will likely attack Earth in 2068 - (Photo: NASA)

On the morning of January 10, the asteroid Apophis - named after an evil god of Egyptian mythology - came across the Earth with a distance of only about 14 million kilometers.

When discovered in December 2004, Apophis with a width of 325m made astronomers particularly concerned about its ability to attack Earth.

Initially, it was thought to crash into the surface of the blue planet around April 2029, but after that, the probability of this collision was pulled down to almost impossible.

Then, the possibility of collisions in 2036 was also removed by NASA experts with the probability of collision falling below the threshold of 1 to 1 million.

However, flying too close to Earth in 2029 will cause Apophis to deviate orbit by Earth's gravity and to the 2068 approach, the possibility of collisions is possible.