The asteroid & nbsp; Apophis & nbsp; nearly 400 meters in diameter and weighing around 30 tons will fly to Earth at a close distance in the spring of 2029, RIA Novosti told VNII GOChS (which is part of the Emergency Department). & nbsp;
According to forecasts, the approach to orbit where the geostationary satellites are located will take place on April 13, 2029. & nbsp;
Experts note that the energy released in a possible collision of an asteroid with Earth will amount to 1,717 megatons, which is 30 times more than Energy released during the explosion of the world's most powerful bomb, tested in 1961.
As the former head of the Center explained & nbsp; Antistikha & nbsp; Vladislav & nbsp; Bolov, the diameter & nbsp; of an asteroid is about one to two kilometers the threshold of a global disaster, and also added that the completeness of information on these space objects is estimated to be less than 80%.
Previously, NASA reported that two potentially dangerous asteroids are approaching Earth, one of the Big Ben-sized celestial bodies will pass through the necks of the planet on the January 11 at a distance of 5.6 million kilometers.