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Mike Wehner
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The most devastating event in Earth's history, as far as life is concerned, was the mass extinction that followed the impact of a colossal asteroid. That event is the reason dinosaurs aren't around today and, perhaps more importantly, why mammals had a chance to boom and why we're all here today. But now that we're here, it would be nice if we could avoid future asteroid calamities, and one of the more threatening space rocks in our neck of the stellar woods is known as 99942 Apophis.
Apophis is a large rocky body thought to be around 1,000 feet wide, and that's big enough that it would cause catastrophic damage if it were to strike our planet. On Friday, March 5th, Apophis is scheduled to make a close approach of Earth, but the good news is that scientists have already determined that it won't hit us.
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