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Apophis will be more than 16 kilometres from Earth on March 6 (Image: GETTY) The new observations we obtained with the Subaru telescope earlier this year were good enough to reveal the Yarkovsky acceleration of Apophis, and they show that the asteroid is drifting away from a purely gravitational orbit by about 170 meters [about 500 feet] per year, which is enough to keep the 2068 impact scenario in play. It was previously thought there was a slim chance the asteroid could hit Earth in 2036, though this was later ruled out. Don Yeomans, manager of NASA s Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL said at the time: With the new data provided by the Magdalena Ridge [New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology] and the Pan-STARRS [University of Hawaii] optical observatories, along with very recent data provided by the Goldstone Solar System Radar, we have effectively ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036.

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