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Character Apophis Hit Terra firma in 2036? NASA Rejects Russian Report 2011 02 07By Michelle Bryner Vacuum.com In 2004, NASA scientists announced that impart was a capricious that Apophis, an asteroid heavy than two football fields, possibly will fall foul of featuring in Terra firma in 2029. A few frugal remarks and precise number-crunching cutting edge, astronomers noted that the capricious of the planet-killer bass beat Terra firma in 2029 was similar to energy.The asteroid Apophis was exposed on June 19, 2004. It command fly innermost 18,300 miles of Terra firma on April 13, 2029,but poses whilst risk of attitude."UH/IA"Now, reports out of Russia say that scientists impart esteem Apophis command bump in the manner of Terra firma on April 13, 2036. These reports discord on the lay bare of such a doomsday episode, but the consider remains: How awful have to we be?"Technically, they're correct, impart is a capricious in 2036 [that Apophis command hit Terra firma]," thought Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near-Earth Intellect Geared up Aspect. However, that capricious is exhibition 1-in-250,000, Yeomans thought.The Russian scientists are basing their predictions of a clang on the capricious that the 900-foot-long (270 meters) Apophis command skull candid what's called a gravitational keyhole as it passes by Terra firma in 2029. The gravitational keyhole they convey is a thorough district in space, barely scarcely heavy than the asteroid itself, in which the propagate of Earth's gravity is such that it possibly will tweak Apophis' way."The turmoil is that in 2029, April 13, [Apophis] flies very close to the Terra firma, innermost five Terra firma radii, so that command be totally an episode, but we've previous to ruled out the venture of it bass beat at that time," Yeomans told Life's Cheap Mysteries. "On the other hand, if it goes candid what we need a keyhole all through that close Terra firma provision... with it command confident be flustered exhibition tweak so that it command emit stick up for and hit Terra firma on April 13, 2036," Yeomans thought.The chances of the asteroid separation candid the keyhole, which is dumpy compared to the asteroid, are "insignificant," Yeomans extra.The supplementary possibility area is this: Apophis command mark a more accurately close provision to Terra firma in late 2012 and preparatory 2013, and command be extreme observed in the manner of ground-based visual telescopes and radar systems. If it seems to be refer to on a refusal way, NASA command devise the speculation and machinery necessity to distress the asteroid's round, falling the lay bare of a clang in 2036 to zero, Yeomans thought.Introduce are a few ways to distress an asteroid's round, the simplest of which is to run a spacecraft featuring in the hurtling rock. This technology was hand-me-down on July 4, 2005, in the role of Pious Take-off shattered featuring in the comet Tempel 1.Present yourself from: space.com