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After working as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that visited and collected samples from the asteroid Bennu, it returned to Earth for study. It is not that the said project will end. Because recently, NASA of the United States Revealed that the Osiris Rex mission has been renamed Osiris-Apex (OSIRIS-APEX) to set out to study the asteroid Apophis, which is a new destination.
A team of scientists proposes sending a spacecraft. Osiris-Apex Go on a special mission to the asteroid Apophis. It is expected to arrive in April 2029. Apophis is classified as an “S” type asteroid, which is made up of silicate materials and nickel metal, quite different from asteroids rich in it. carbon What’s interesting regarding Apophis is that it will pass especially close to our planet on April 13, 2029, even though Apophis will not collide with Earth during the encounter. Next time or in the near future But orbiting Earth in 2029, this asteroid will come within 32,000 kilometers from Earth. and close enough to be visible to the naked eye in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Scientists estimate that the asteroid Apophis Probably regarding 340 meters in diameter, it comes close to Earth only once every 7,500 years.
Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO
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