Plans to Explore Asteroid Apophis | NASA's OSIRIS-APEX Mission

Plans to Explore Asteroid Apophis | NASA's OSIRIS-APEX Mission

Plans to Explore Asteroid Apophis | NASA's OSIRIS-APEX MissionOSIRIS-APEX is NASA’s mission to study the physical changes to asteroid Apophis that will result from its rare close encounter with Earth in April 2029. That year, Apophis’ orbit will bring it within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of Earth’s surface—closer to Earth than our highest-altitude satellites. Our planet’s gravitational pull is expected to alter the asteroid’s orbit, change…