The Official Asteroid Apophis Site
Asteroid Apophis is a possible Earth bound asteroid. Known as 99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that had caused concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a small probability (up to 2.7%) that it would strike the Earth in 2029. Recent news indicate that it could be on a collision course afterall.

Let’s Capture An Asteroid!

On April 15th, President Obama made his case to NASA workers in Florida on Thursday for abandoning plans to return to the moon and instead aim for asteroids, Mars and more robotic asteroidmissions. This could be a great idea where we can learn everything there is to know about potentially harmful asteroids. The President’s idea and NASA believe that if we send a manned mission to a nearby asteroid we can gain a lot of information related to it which could help in missions to Mars and such.

We should actually take an additional step in learning about asteroids where instead of going far away from Earth and planting a man or women on an asteroid, why not find a very small asteroid and with the help of NASA’s  robotic technology we could literally bring the rock back and place it into a geosnych orbit.

Sure, it is a far fetched idea, but if we did such an experiment we could learn a lot about its structure, flight orbital path, and everything that we could think of. And the good news about this is that we can constantly do research on the asteroid instead of just one lone trip.


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