{"id":112671,"date":"2020-11-12T21:08:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/apophis-asteroid-nicknamed-god-of-chaos-is-speeding-up\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T18:08:20","slug":"apophis-asteroid-nicknamed-god-of-chaos-is-speeding-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/apophis-asteroid-nicknamed-god-of-chaos-is-speeding-up\/","title":{"rendered":"#Apophis asteroid, nicknamed \u2018God of Chaos,\u2019 is speeding up"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Apophis asteroid, nicknamed \u2018God of Chaos,\u2019 is speeding up<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n An asteroid that has been nicknamed after the Egyptian God of Chaos is speeding up, scientists recently revealed.<\/p>\n

Scientifically known as 99942 Apophis, the massive, 1,120-foot-wide space rock will fly within 23,441 miles above Earth\u2019s surface on April 13, 2029, as well as in 2036. However, it\u2019s the space rock\u2019s flyby in 2068 that may be impacted by the slight alteration in its previously predicted orbit, due to the Yarkovsky effect, that has scientists talking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have known for some time that an impact with Earth is not possible during the 2029 close app<\/a>roach,\u201d said one of the study\u2019s authors, University of Hawai\u02bbi Institute for Astronomy astronomer Dave Tholen, in a statement.<\/a> \u201cThe 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 per year, which is enough to keep the 2068 impact scenario in play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tholen, who has been tracking Apophis since his team discovered it in 2004, presented the findings at the 2020 virtual meeting of the Division for Planetary Science<\/a>s of the American Astronomical Society. His comments can be found in this video at the 22-minute mark.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Yarkovsky effect, or Yarkovsky acceleration, is caused by the sun heating the space rock unevenly, resulting in a \u201cprocess that slightly changes the orbit of the asteroid,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

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This animation shows the distance between the Apophis asteroid and Earth at the time of the asteroid\u2019s closest approach.<\/span>NASA\/JPL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The chances of 99942 Apophis impacting Earth are still low \u2014 previously calculated<\/a> at about 1 in 150,000 by the Center for Near-Earth Studies \u2014 but it\u2019s enough to give scientists a pause for concern.<\/p>\n

In 2019, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that despite the asteroid\u2019s \u201cgreat name\u201d he wouldn\u2019t worry about this \u201cparticular\u201d asteroid.<\/p>\n

He cautioned, however, that a \u201cbig rock will hit Earth eventually and we have no defense for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The size and proximity to Earth of 99942 Apophis make it a near-Earth object (NEO) and in this case, a \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d one.<\/p>\n

\u201cPotentially hazardous\u201d NEOs are defined as space objects that come within 0.05 astronomical units and measure more than 460 feet in diameter, according to NASA.<\/a> According to a 2018 report<\/a> put together by Planetary.org, there are more than 18,000 NEOs.<\/p>\n

NASA unveiled a 20-page plan<\/a> in 2018 that details the steps the US should take to be better prepared for NEOs, such as asteroids and comets that come within 30 million miles of the planet.<\/p>\n

A recent survey<\/a> showed that Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts over sending humans back to the moon or to Mars.<\/p>\n

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in April 2019 that an asteroid strike<\/a> is not something to be taken lightly and is perhaps Earth\u2019s biggest threat.\n <\/div>\n

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“#Apophis asteroid, nicknamed \u2018God of Chaos,\u2019 is speeding up” An asteroid that has been nicknamed after the Egyptian God of Chaos is speeding up, scientists recently revealed. Scientifically known as 99942 Apophis, the massive, 1,120-foot-wide space rock will fly within 23,441 miles above Earth\u2019s surface on April 13, 2029, as well as in 2036. However,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Apophis-asteroid-02.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[79766,72173,5017,5026,5050,5019],"class_list":["post-112671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-12-20","tag-asteroids","tag-astronomy","tag-nasa","tag-scientists","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}