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Apophis

Outline The numbers here are measured. The rest of this page is being written.

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The path of Apophis round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus and the Earth; it crosses the path of the Earth. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
0.9224 au from the Sun on average
Once round
323.6 days
Path
a slightly stretched circle (eccentricity 0.191), tilted 3.34°
Size
0.34 km across

Will pass closer to the Earth than the weather satellites on 13 April 2029, and will not hit.

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Still being written

  1. What it looks like
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have visited
  5. Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.