At https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/new-study-reveals-god-chaos-asteroid-apophis-could-still-hit-earth-in-2029-but-we-won-t-find-out-for-3 more-years….. a new simulation reveals there is a small chance the asteroid Apophis could be nudged on to a collision course with the Earth in 2029. Apophis is a peanut shaped space rock 1100 feet across. Therefore, it is not a planet killer – but is big earth to wipe out an entire city. It was discovered in 2004 and was given the name Apophis – a variation of the Egyptian serpent god, Apep. He was the god of darkness and disorder – or God of Chaos. The asteroid, Apophis, was the subject of Nicholas Costa’s book ‘Adam to Apophis’; asteroids, millenarianism, and climate change‘ [2013]. On December 23rd of 2004 NASA issued an alarming report on the trajectory of Apophis. There was a 1 in 233 chance of it hitting the Earth in April of 2029. Later, on December 27th, NASA said the sums were done again and the chance of a collision was zero. No threat. The asteroid Apophis was named after an evil character in a TV series, Stargate. Yet, the name goes all the way back to ancient Egypt. He was the mortal enemy of the sun god, Ra. A serpent that brought darkness and chaos upon the face of the Earth. According to Costa, he also appears in the Bible as Gog or Agag, and in Greek myth as Ogyges.
The orbit of Apophis was officially classifed as safe. It will not effect life on Earth – but space rocks continue to be a problem. At https://phys.org/news/2024-08-debris-dart-earth-mars-decade.html … debris from the DART mission that deflected a small asteroid from its orbit could hit Earth and Mars within a decade, we are told. The mission was designed to test the idea of deflection and in that sense it was a success. It now seems that dusty debris from the collision is acting like an outgassing comet in that it has formed a stream that will cross the path of the Earth in a few years time.
At https://phys.org/news/2024-08-meteor-showers-comets-early-solar.html … a 45 strong team of researchers studying meteor showers.