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    Kollisionen könnten die Wahrscheinlichkeit erhöhen, dass der Asteroid „Gott der Zerstörung“, Apophis, die Erde trifft


    Kollisionen könnten die Wahrscheinlichkeit erhöhen, dass der Asteroid „Gott der Zerstörung“, Apophis, die Erde trifft

    https://www.space.com/collisions-could-increase-chance-apophis-hitting-earth

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    1. topcat5 on

      19,000 miles is rather close. That’s within the orbit of geosynchronous satellites.

    2. Fyrefawx on

      I’ve long thought that this would be the one to actually hit us. I hope I’m wrong but it’s coming extremely close .

    3. PuppetmanInBC on

      The plot of the movie Greenland comes to mind – the asteroid is supposed to miss, until it doesn’t. Great “we’re fucked” movie.

    4. RestorativeAlly on

      I think if it were going to hit and we knew it, we’d be told it was certain to be a near miss until the last minute. Preparations would quietly be made in full knowledge that most could not be saved. Society would be notified (if at all) only after it was deemed irrelevant to preparations to do so. Keep a good bottle and lawn chair on hand just in case.

    5. whatyoucallmetoday on

      Everyone needs to start driving carefully.

      Maybe it is not that type of collision.

    6. simcoder on

      Seems like a collision could also “push” it further away from collision with Earth.

    7. runningray on

      After the DART mission I’m less worried about things like this. Let’s say a small mass asteroid crashes into Apophis and it starts towards Earth (mind you this less than 1 in a million chance here), we will just hit it again with our own impactors which seem to work and push it ‘behind’ the orbit of Earth.

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