The exact time of a possible Apocalypse is already known to a second. Friday April 13, 2029, 4.36 a.m. GMT. Lurking in himself energy of 65 thousand atomic bombs Apophis asteroid with a mass of 50 million tons and with a diameter of 320 meters will cross the orbit of the moon and rush to Earth at a speed of 45 thousand kilometers per hour. 
Photo from open sources “This is really dangerous for the Earth, because if an asteroid falls to its surface – and it will fall will be at a speed of not less than 16 kilometers per second – then from one its fall the energy release will be like from the fall of thousands of atomic bombs, a huge amount of dust will rise into the atmosphere, “says Head of the Laboratory of the State Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University Mikhail Prokhorov. A catastrophe will happen if space cobblestone will fall into the gravitational “keyhole”: a strip of space a kilometer wide. Earth’s gravitational force will simply deploy Apophis in a dangerous direction, and the planet will be literally on the sights in The moment of the next rapprochement is April 13, 2029. Scientists are looking ways to stop the deadly path. The main idea is to change orbit. Some suggest installing a rocket on the surface of Apophis engine, others – throw the aggressor with a frontal blow spaceship, the third – to undermine a powerful nuclear charge. Catastrophic scientists sigh: everything is pointless. “This asteroid nobody will stop, because it is large, – says Vladimir Alekseev, Head of the Laboratory, Trinity Institute innovative and fusion research. – It is very dangerous, because it will cover a vast territory, as in Tunguska. ” The collision of Apophis can do unprecedented troubles. His fall accounted for by a strip of 50 kilometers running through Russia, Central America and the Atlantic: hundreds of cities face complete destruction. But even if Apophis falls into the ocean, a funnel forms with a depth of 3 and a diameter of 8 kilometers, from which in all directions tsunami waves will run. As a result, let’s say the Florida coast will fall under the impact of twenty-meter waves, which within an hour will crumble to the mainland. However, a stone block, as they say scientists still fly past the Earth at a distance of 30 thousand kilometers. But further meetings can be fatal. “Even if this collision does not happen, at the next speed it will be continue to draw closer to the Earth, and the chance that he will be in 50-150 years will happen, it will remain, ”Mikhail Prokhorov exaggerates. However, in Russia is already developing its own way to protect the planet from apocalypse. You need to know the potential enemy in person – for this at Apophis plan to send the so-called “gravitational tractor. “He will study the behavior of this cosmic body, its composition, and try to reject the asteroid’s orbit to rule out even the slightest chance of a collision. Mission planned for 2020 year.
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