Asteroid May Strike Earth in 2036?

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Russian scientists last week said that the Apophis asteroid may collide with the earth in 2036 but a report came out this week which said the chance of it striking the earth is highly unlikely.

And, if the object gets close enough, it would be a good research opportunity, a space scientist told the International Business Times.

Apophis, at its closest point in 2029, will be at least 18,300 miles away from the Earth. Dan Durda, a scientist with the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, told the Times that he submitted a proposal to NASA to send a spacecraft to the asteroid and learn more about it.

"It's a real chance to study this kind of object," Durda told the publication.

Durda added that a mission to probe the asteroid would have to be launched in 2021 due to Apophis’s tilted orbit.
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Apophis Asteroid Not a Danger but

If it will come closer of earth, Russian and American missiles should hit it.
 
I will be 59 in 2036, if it actually strikes Earth head-on. That would be the perfect day to die. ;-)




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Great, I'll get ready and get naked and masturbate, laugh... at Time Square in NYC.
 
Jiro said:
you know firing missiles at asteroid (which will not hit Earth) is the worst solution?

that will cause asteroid bombardment... meaning - one asteroid breaking up into hundreds of asteroids.
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Yep. Just send up a life insurance salesman, preferably a former Moonie. It will go away.
 
Too distant future to worry for sure YET they could not trace every asteroid and/or comet coming unexpectedly. So who knows that one could suddenly surprise us much earlier than say 2036? Not meant to fear-monger anyone but it's a irrefutable possibility.
 
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