The nerds at NASA say not to worry about the passing asteroid Apophis. They're probably right, but consider what could happen when big objects come from the sky.
From existential lunar destruction to the very real Japanese mission to extract dust from a passing object, we've got your fill of interstellar rocks this week.
Sources:
JAXA Asteroid prope landing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjhP5yULCpM)
Apophis hitting the earth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8Ln4mXqII)
https://www.ancient.eu/Apophis/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/apophis/in-depth/
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-apophis-asteroid-earth-thought.html
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