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The close flight will provide an opportunity for scientists to study ways to prevent an asteroid collision, should one threaten to occur.
“They come near the Earth, and there’s potential that one day one of them will hit the Earth and cause a major disaster. We believe this happened 65m years ago, when the dinosaurs were all wiped out. And if it’s a big asteroid and it hits us, it’ll be a catastrophe which will destroy humanity,” Monica Grady of the Open University told the newspaper.
The deployment of a spacecraft within four years is a tight time frame in which to launch a space mission, according to the report. “There’s nothing we can do about it in terms of changing that date — and that’s what would happen in a situation where an asteroid was coming to hit the Earth,” Terik Daly of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory said. “We can’t negotiate with the asteroid. What we can do is prepare to respond in an effective way.”The asteroid is expected to pass close to the Earth and will arrive on April 13, 2029 — a Friday.
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