Giant Asteroid Will Come SCARY Close To Earth In 2029, So MIT Is Sending A Probe

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is designing a space probe to intercept a 40-million-ton asteroid that will pass extremely close to Earth twelve years from now. MIT announced Wednesday that professors and students are designing a space probe mission to observe the asteroid “99942 Apophis” as it passes Earth in 2029. Due to the […]

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June 2, 2017 at 01:01AM