According to the findings of a new radar monitoring campaign combined with accurate orbit analysis, researchers have concluded that there is no possibility of Apophis reaching our planet for at least a century. But what would happen if everyone's worst-case scenario came into fruition? Do we have plans to battle such devastating disasters?
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Close
asteroid will be zipping past the Earth on
Christmas Day that is longer than two full-length football fields. It is currently being monitored by NASA.
It has been labeled Asteroid 501647 (designated 2014 SD224). It is included on NASA s close approach list.
Its length could reach a maximum of 689 feet in width. It has been predicted to approach as close as 1.9 million miles from our planet. A distance of almost 2 million miles may look like a good distance, but about space, this is very close.
This is because rapidly moving objects in space that approach approximately 4.65 million miles away already counts as a potentially dangerous distance. This standard has been set by space organizations that are especially cautious and conservative.