It has been warned that on Friday, April 13, 2029, it will pass us by. That would definitely make Friday the 13th exceedingly unlucky.
Despite the fact that Apophis’s estimated distance from Earth was 18,300 miles, Wiegert thinks that if it encounters a “small object” along the way, the trajectory might be drastically altered.
That means it might crash into us if it chances to collide with a rock in space?Perhaps, indeed. “The odds of an unseen small asteroid deflecting Apophis enough to direct it into a collision with Earth in 2029
(d 3.4 m, v > 5 102 m s1) are approximately 10-8,” the scientist said in an explanation of his idea, as published by the Daily Star.
It seems that there is just a one in two billion chance that the bump will cause the rock to go toward Earth, making it an extremely unlikely scenario.
Wiegert explained: “Given that only five percent of such impulses are in the correct direction to generate an
