The most dangerous asteroid Apophis with a diameter of almost 400 meters and weighing about 30 tons in the spring of 2029 will be very close to the ground – at the distance of the orbits of geostationary satellites. Such a forecast was made at the All-Russian Research Institute on Civil Defense and Emergency Situations (GOCM) EMERCOM of Russia, RIA Novosti reports.
The Research Institutes warned that Apophis approaches the Earth on April 13, 2029 at a distance of 38.4 thousand kilometers. The speed of rapprochement will be 7.42 kilometers per second. The energy released in a collision of the cosmic body with a diameter of 393 meters and weighing about 27 tons with the surface of the Earth will be 1717 megaton, which is 30 times more energy elected during the explosion of the most powerful Soviet Bomb in the world, which was tested in 1961.
According to the forecast, the earthquake force within a radius of 10 kilometers from the fall site can reach 6.5 points on the Richter scale, the wind speed will be at least 790 meters per second.