Encounter Circumstances of Asteroid 99942 Apophis with the Catalog of Known Asteroids
Asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass near Earth in 2029 April. Expected to miss our planet by a safe margin, that could change if Apophis's path were perturbed by a collision with another asteroid in the interim. Though the statistical chance of such a collision is minuscule, the high risk associat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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Series: | The Planetary Science Journal |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2de2 |