There are millions of asteroids floating in our Solar System. Every year thousands of meteorites weighing about a pound fall on Earth. Usually we don’t see them, because they land in uninhabited forests or the ocean. However, in 2004 scientists discovered a really dangerous asteroid in space weighing more than 20-million-tons or 40-billion-pounds. The first observations show it has a 2.7% of chance of hitting us in 2029. If an asteroid this big hit the Earth, it would cause major devastation ove

APOPHIS ASTEROID CLOSE ENCOUNTER 2029 The asteroid Apophis, measuring about 340 meters across, is expected to make a historic close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029. It will pass closer than geosynchronous satellites, coming within approximately 31,000 kilometers of our planet. While this is an extremely close encounter in astronomical terms, scientists confirm it poses no immediate threat. Observing Apophis will provide a unique opportunity to study the behavior of near-Earth asteroids, thei