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(99942) Apophis - Encounter with Earth, April 13th, 2029

This video presents an encounter between the Earth and the Aten asteroid named (99942) Apophis. The camera travels in the solar system onboard Apophis, watching in the direction of the Earth center. The fly by of the Earth by Apophis occurs on April 13th, 2029.

The video is composed of individual scenes computed and embeded by the Skybot3D software. The relative position between Apophis and the Earth-Moon system is computed every 5 min. during the close approach. All the dots in the background are the known asteroids visible in the field of view.

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