Earth Is Safe From Infamous Asteroid Apophis for the Next 100 Years, NASA Says
Asteroid Apophis—one of the scariest rocks in the solar system—won’t pose a threat to Earth for at least another century, according to updated NASA calculations. Every 80,000 years or so, an object measuring around three football fields in length smashes into Earth, unleashing the equivalent of over 1,000 megatons of TNT. The discovery of Apophis…