Thursday, January 10, 2013

Asteroid Apophis Just Got Bigger

"In April 2029 the space rock will still make a very close pass with our planet, coming within 22,364 miles"

Being the skeptical engineer, I would say there is also a chance that on its multihundred million mile trip over the next decade and a half all it would take to nudge the orbit a slight amount to make the close pass a hit would be an encounter with another large object that affected its orbit ever so slightly...the wrong way.

That orbital perturbation is random & would simply not be predictable.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/6UendPPwJ4M/story01.htm

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