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Asteroid Apophis: Animation Shows Asteroid's Nail-Biting Close Approach To Earth In 2029

An animation of an asteroid's close approach to Earth has garnered considerable interest in recent times, largely due to its ...
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NASA saves $20M mission to visit the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid

NASA’s ambitious $20 million mission to study the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid, Apophis, has been spared from the brink of ...
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$20 million NASA mission to visit 'God of Chaos' asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...
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Asteroid 99942 Apophis won't impact Earth for at least a century, NASA finds

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...
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Japan to provide H3 rocket for Europe's mission to observe Apophis asteroid

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 rocket as a launch vehicle, a Japanese space agency official ...
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Cruise Liner-Sized Asteroid to Get Closer to Earth Than Satellites, Spacecraft to Meet It

There are literally thousands of asteroids circling around our planet in the vast solar system of ours, going about their business at various distances from our planet. Only one of them sends shivers ...