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A Scientist Has Come Forward to Show the Odds of Asteroid Apophis Striking Earth Higher than Thought



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In a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal, astrophysicist Paul Wiegert from the University of Western Ontario explores the potential for asteroid 99942 Apophis to collide with Earth. While previous assessments had ruled out an impact in the foreseeable future, Wiegert’s analysis considers the scenario where a smaller asteroid could strike Apophis, altering its trajectory.​

His findings suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters could potentially shift Apophis onto a collision course with Earth. However, the likelihood of such an event remains extremely low, estimated at approximately 1 in 2 billion. Even if such a collision occurred, the chance of Apophis subsequently impacting Earth is about 1 in 1 million.​

Apophis, discovered in 2004, initially garnered attention due to its high rating on the Torino impact hazard scale. It is set to make a close approach to Earth in 2029, with subsequent flybys in 2036 and 2068.​

For a more detailed understanding of Wiegert’s study and its implications, you can read the full article here:

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  1. Bullshit, unless the event I'm about to mention is still undocumented:
    Back in May of 1991, there was an inner-atmospheric daytime entry of asteroid 1991jw, also known as an earth grazer.

  2. We ever since satellites have started predicting daily weather it seems that the weather forecast stations should be banned for completely misleading information hopefully the object will hit all the satellites so they can get updated.

  3. 😂 isn't it will be great idea with knowing polarity of a unknown space objects can push them away from planet by having sweach shield on/off the Earth's! Within radio waves at specific distance!

  4. If the Pyramid is not restored to activate the magnetic force field we are doomed, I have studied this since 1980, I knew that the pillars under the Pyramid were there back then, they work like the ground wire connected to your house which protects from lightning strikes only in reverse, the pillars pull the magnetic fields from the Earth as Earth generates the magnetic fields, the magnetic fields travel through the Pyramid and is focused by the gold pyramidion on top and projected to where inner and outer space meet creating a sphere shaped force field beam enveloping Earth protecting Earth from meteorites, specifically the meteorites in the magnetosphere tail of planet X, also known as Marduk, Earth was once called Tiamat before Marduk hit Earth and ripped out her entrails according to Babalonians, the information is in history and in the Bible itself, I deciphered a riddle in the Bible which will prove this as fact.

  5. All it takes is as it gets closer to the sun and how it rotates a frozen gas pocket could melt. Creating thrust like an engine changing course and more. However, global warming is much bigger threat my opinion.

  6. Depends on where the asteroid strikes Apophis (named after the God of death and destruction of an ancient polytheistic culture here on earth) most likely the asteroid will not affect Apophis' although it would be interesting to see if there is life in the Alpha Centauri system, it would be even better if we could visit it.

  7. Your estimate of the amount of energy released in a potential collision as being only a mere thousand megatons is only like that of twenty or so tsar bombs when a previous impactor of Jupiter that was not levy shoemaker 9 but another that was only half of the size and only a third of the velocity with an estimated energy release stated by an accredited astrophysicist to be in the range that of the entire nuclear arsenal detonating all at once several thousand times over let alone a much larger object that is travelling at a much greater velocity of something in the vicinity of 50 klms a second the speed being a force multiplier as in the equation KE = 1/2 Mass Velocity squared which to be clear that ten times the mass is ten times the force but ten times the velocity is a hundred times greater the force. Try and find that information on here good luck. The statement that the orbit calculation is accurate is also further bullshit due to the fact that the mathematics involved is a hole in math thats makes it breakdown into chaos and therefore right out of the gate and this absolute irrefutable factual truth is called the N body problem. So read a book and learn something that is a real science and not just regurgitant nonsense without any evidence to support your claims

  8. 2029 GLOBAL GRID DOWN -APOPHIS DOES NOT HAVE TO HIT TO CAUSE DISASTER

    APOPHIS is scheduled for a close flyby of earth

    in 2012 an asteroid passed by Mars at 100k miles and it discharged a static charge that blew up THE ENTIRE PLANET in a SHOCK STATIC ELECTRICAL CHARGE VISIBLE FROM EARTH with a telescope.

    Aphopis is calculated to come as close as 10k miles

    NASA HAS PICTURES OF THE EVENT of the entire planet of mars in a a bright electrical flashover

    But what is REALLY funky is the US SHUT DOWN all rovers on Mars BEFORE it happened. WHY?

    Because a static discharge from an asteroid can wipe out all electronics.

    NASA ALSO was RECORDING the flyby ON DELAY and CUT OFF THE FEED when the flashover occurred because they feared it would damage their systems or they did not want you to see it.

    APOPHIS COULD FORCE OUR GOVERNMENT TO SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE GLOBAL GRID to avoid damage WEEKS IN ADVANCE and lock us all down till power is restored.

    They coult attempt a TOP SECRET BLACK START PROCEDURE that could take weeks or years to restart some areas.

    Apophis MEANS eternal darkness to the world. DARK MEANS NO GRID, GRID DOWN, BLACK START, STONE AGE

    Get ready for the government grid shutdown.

    And look at the preparedness thay are working on.

    Lockdowns, depopulation, green energy (alternate power local sources) EV cars (in case oil is not available, Government is preparing. Gobal wors, global cooperation', CBDC, lock downs, martial law, Its all coming together/ Its on the way and does not have to hit because our Government could actually create the disaster

  9. Grey beard here have lived through several so called disaster scenarios and am still here yawnnnn. I would be more concerned with it cleaning up several satellites that then cascaded into the rest on that level, watch the movie Gravity

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