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.

Asteroid 2011 MD No Threat

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27 June 2011

An asteroid the size of a small house will zoom past Earth on Monday evening, but don’t worry it is no threat to our planet astronomer say.
This asteroid is called 2011 MD and is 8 meters across, is going to be as close as 12,000km from Earth. This would make it over southern Atlantic Ocean [...]

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