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This is probably the third time that I have heard or read conflicting reports on this.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060104/NEWS/601040303/1039...The group is made up of people who are experts in near-Earth objects, for which they make the acronym NEO. They had a conference in London recently and compared notes on their findings.
The asteroid in question was identified in 2004 and studied in 2005 for its trajectory. At first they were scared enough to believe that it could hit the Earth in 2029. Then they did some more fine-tuning of their computer data and decided that it would come close to the Earth in 2029, but wouldn't be on a possible collision course until 2036.[continued]
http://www.Earth'sky.org/shows/astrophysics_interviews.php?id=49241...Yeomans: Right -- you mentioned Apophis, which is an asteroid about 300 meters in size that will get very close to the Earth on April 13, 2029. In fact it will get beneath the geosynchronous satellites -- the same satellites that are probably used to beam your radio signals to your listeners. Certainly television and Earth surveying satellites are at geosynchronous orbits, and this asteroid will get beneath them and become a third magnitude naked-eye object for a period of time. So that's kind of exciting. But -- it won't hit the Earth. [continued]
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