. The asteroid Apophis in 2068 may fall to the Ground, and in 2029 pass at a distance ten times closer to the planet than the distance from the earth To the moon, considered on the celestial mechanics Department of St. Petersburg state University. A report they prepared For the Moscow readings on cosmonautics.

Before a possible collision with Earth in 2068 Asteroid closer to our planet in 2044 16 million kilometers, 2051 year - on 760 thousand kilometers and in 2060 by 5 million kilometers.

On the possibility of collision of Apophis with Earth in 2068 first was intimidated by the NASA scientists. Experts of the jet propulsion laboratory of management, University of Hawaii and the University of Pisa found that the probability of collision in 2068 not above 2, 3 1 million.

The asteroid Apophis is a 325 size in metres found in 2004. The discovery caused a stir - the calculations showed that there is a probability of 2 7%, Apophis, which received its name in honor of the ancient Egyptian God of evil and destruction, will collide with the Earth in 2029. Then scientists have ruled out the danger, figuring that April 13, 2029 the Asteroid will fly at a distance of 37, 6 thousand kilometers from the Earth's center.

However, it was determined that after the convergence in 2029, the Asteroid may change its orbit so that the next return will collide with the Earth. For this Asteroid at the time of convergence must pass through the "keyhole" - a very narrow region of space. Before, it was believed that the passage of the asteroid through one of these "wells" will increase the likelihood of bringing it down to Earth in 2036, But in January, NASA Experts on the results of new observations found that this risk is in practice excluded, the probability of this event was less than 1 in 1 million.



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