That's just enough time for CERN to make mini blackholes and micro adjust the asteroid's course over time.
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Impact threat from asteroid Apophis cannot be ruled out The famous near-Earth asteroid Apophis caused quite a stir in 2004 when it was announced that it could hit our planet. Although the possibility of an impact during its close approach in 2029 was excluded, the asteroid's collision with Earth in the more distant future cannot be completely ruled out. "We can rule out a collision at the next closest approach with the Earth, but then the orbit will change in a way that is not fully predictable just now, so we cannot predict the behavior on a longer timescale," Alberto Cellino of the Observatory of Turin in Italy told Astrowatch.net. While currently there are no near-Earth objects (NEO) on collision course with the Earth, this situation may dramatically change someday. Given that that NEO orbits are chaotic, what is not dangerous today can become a candidate impactor in the future. "There are no known asteroids on a certain collision course. Because of imperfectly known orbits, there are some that have a low probability of impact in the distant future, but at present none of the known asteroids has a probability of impact that exceeds the random chance of an undiscovered asteroid of the same size hitting the Earth sometime between now and the possible impact date of the imperfectly known object," Alan Harris, a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) researcher told Astrowatch.net. He added that this ratio forms the basis of the so-called "Palermo Scale" assigned to any object with a non-zero chance of impact. It is a logarithmic scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a NEO. A rating of zero means the hazard is equivalent to the background hazard—the average risk posed by objects of the same size or larger over the years until the date of the potential impact. A negative Palermo Scale value corresponds to a threat that is less than the general background risk of an impact. "Apophis has a Palermo Scale rating of about minus three, so while we cannot rule out an impact in the future, it is about 1,000 times less likely than a random impact in the same interval of time. Due to a close but non-impacting pass by the Earth, there are numerous possible impact trajectories beyond that, but all are of very low probability," Harris said. Discovered in June 2004 by Roy A. Tucker, David J. Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, asteroid Apophis is about 370 meters in diameter. Based on recent observations, the probability of an impact during its flybys of Earth on April 13, 2029 and on April 13, 2036 was eliminated by astronomers. The asteroid is constantly monitored in order to improve our knowledge of its orbit. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-impact-threat-asteroid-apophis.html#jCp
I can't believe I've missed the only "Official" Killer Asteroid thread on multiple occasions. The pillar supporting my ardent support of Man in Space (despite the opposition of the Scientist from San Francisco, B-Bob, who is an early Robot supporter. My pleading that robots could turn against Humanity continue to be ignored by the otherwise excellent fellow) is that we need the ability to not only discover Earth striking asteroids and comets, but to actually be able to deflect them when we do, and someday one or the other will. It could be dozens or hundreds or thousands of years from now, or it could be next month or next year. Heck, we could be struck by an asteroid tomorrow. The one that blew up approaching Russia some years back could have been much worse. We had no warning because we didn't know it existed. While using robotics to deflect an asteroid or comet is certainly feasible, given enough time and money, and I think we are close to having the ability, in theory, pardon me if I continue to feel strongly that we need humans involved. On the spot, as it were. I think President Obama thinks the same thing, even if he may not have said so out loud. Why else would he change the early missions of our new manned spacecraft capable of relatively deep space flight (as opposed to near Earth) that will be coming soon, to sending it to an asteroid? "By 2025 the United States should be ready to test manned spaceships for deep space exploration." Space.com That's 4 years before 2029. Coincidence? I think not. KC continues to be on top of things. We should all be grateful. If we're lucky, he won't raise a leg and pee on the BBS while doing so.
2020 update... _______ Mega-dangerous asteroid called ‘God of Chaos’ is headed toward Earth The massive space rock known as Apophis will pass by Earth several times in the upcoming decades. A collision with Earth has been ruled out for most of them, but one pass is still giving astronomers a reason to be nervous. https://bgr.com/2020/10/28/apophis-forecast-asteroid-space-rock/amp/
Space hurricanes might get us first. First-ever 'space hurricane' detected over the North Pole Any planet with plasma and a magnetic field could be victim to these 'violent' space storms, researchers said. For the first time, astronomers have detected a powerful, 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) hurricane of plasma in Earth's upper atmosphere — a phenomenon they're calling a "space hurricane." The space hurricane raged for nearly 8 hours on Aug. 20, 2014, swirling hundreds of miles above Earth's magnetic North Pole, according to a study published Feb. 22 in the journal Nature Communications. https://www.livescience.com/space-hurricane-over-north-pole.html
That's some cold blooded humanity is doomed sh*t. "Made from a tangled mess of magnetic field lines and fast-flying solar wind, the hurricane was invisible to the naked eye — however, four weather satellites that passed over the North Pole detected a formation not unlike a typical terrestrial hurricane"
