NASA launches spacecraft to intercept asteroid known as "God of Chaos" as it passes uncomfortably close to Earth

Indeed.

Brings nothing but ruin...

Send Greta into space and she will scare it out of here.

Yes indeed!

We can all sleep more soundly tonight knowing that our communist government is going to take a chance on accidently influencing the asteroid’s orbit as it skims uncomfortable close to Earth...

With the morons now in charge of federal agencies, what could possibly go wrong?

I’m waiting for the earth shattering KABOOM ......!!!

If they fire the thrusters near it will that change its course and hit us?

Going that near to Earth is going to alter its orbit. I hope they factored that into the equation.

Predicted to miss earth in 2029 - there is a gravitational keyhole some 600 meters wide If Apophis hits it on its approach will alter the path to hit earth on next pass in 20246

Going that near to Earth is going to alter its orbit. I hope they factored that into the equation.”

I wonder if we should mention this to the folks at NASA.
Maybe they didn’t think of that.

A shame they can’t put BEMU on it with enough fuel to nudge it closer to the Sun in an orbit that would slingshot it out of the elliptic.

Not ever close, we already did that to a different asteroid and then landed on still another.

Going that near to Earth is going to alter its orbit. I hope they factored that into the equation.

LOL! Do you calculate orbits for a living?

The people at NASA do. They're extraordinarily good at it. Your hopes are fulfilled before you even express them.

BS, they’re gonna push that thing closer. Otherwise all the billionaires would not be building bunkers right now.

Thanks Red Badger. The fact that the ephemeris and Palermo value is so often re-eval'ed for this rock in particular is disquieting. Remember, if this were really NO THREAT, some gubmint schlubs and political hacks would be declaring it a crisis over and over. :^)

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Will Apophis Hit Earth in 2036? NASA Rejects Russian Report [02/07/2011]
Cosmo-nuts vs. the asteroid: The Russians are planning a space mission to save Earth [01/04/2010]
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German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper [04/16/2008]
German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper [04/15/2008]
Asteroid Threat Demands Response, Experts Warn [02/17/2007]
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The Asteroid Threat is Out There [01/10/2007]
Risk Of Asteroid Smashing Into Earth Reduced (Apophis) [05/22/2006]
Action urged to deal with asteroid likely to hit Earth (Please read and respond to my comment) [12/09/2005]
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Scientist: Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2029 [12/23/2004]
See also the Torino scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis

99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object with a diameter of 370 metres (1,210 feet)......

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/PIA23195-AsteroidApophis-ClosestApproachToEarth-20190429.webm/PIA23195-AsteroidApophis-ClosestApproachToEarth-20190429.webm.720p.vp9.webm

The rock that made the Meteor Crater was between 100 and 160 feet in diameter.

https://meteorcrater.com/learn/the-barringer-crater/

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/epo_web/impact_cratering/enviropages/Barringer/barringerstartpage.html

The Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet had a pre-discovery interaction with Jupiter which broke it into pieces, and when discovered was on a terminal trajectory. The opportunity to observe and/or record such large impacts (without having them hit the Earth anyway) got most fired up — yet, even a short time before the impacts began, Nature published a paper that basically denigrated the overall, uh, impact of the impacts.

The author could barely have been more wrong. I wonder what his FR nick is?

https://www.nature.com/articles/370094a0

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