The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029.
In about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles . During this rare encounter, Apophis will be ten times closer to Earth than the Moon and scientists want to take full advantage of its visit. Apophis is a on trajectory towards an Earth flyby on April 13, 2029. When it was first discovered in 2004, the 1,100-foot-wide near-Earth object was designated as a hazardous asteroid that could impact our planet.
The orbital platform can be used to deliver instruments or deployable spacecraft to Apophis for low-cost, low-risk missions, Steve Squyres, chief scientist at Blue Origin, is quoted in SpaceNews as saying. For its proposal, ExLabs presented an idea that had previously been studied by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
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