Asteroid’s near-Earth flyby prompts mission plan from ESA

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Apophis will pass within 32 000km of Earth in 2029.

An asteroid passing by Earth so closely is a rare occurrence and will help us better understand how Earth’s gravity affects asteroids.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was crowned a success and now, the European Space Agency wants to do a bit more research in deflecting asteroids. The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety or Ramses, will see the ESA studying the Apophis asteroid as it makes a near flyby of Earth in 2029. “There is still so much we have yet to learn about asteroids but, until now, we have had to travel deep into the Solar System to study them and perform experiments ourselves to interact with their surface,” Patrick Michel, Director of Research at CNRS at Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in Nice, said in

In order to study the asteroid, the ESA will need to launch Ramses in April 2028, allowing enough time for it to get close to Apophis when it passes Earth in February 2029. Ramses will carry a buffet of scientific instruments with it allowing scientists to study its shape, surface, orbit, rotation and orientation. This data will aid in understanding how an impact can change an asteroid’s trajectory.

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