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• [2016]

Sony PlayStation 4.

• [2029]

Apophis, an asteroid measuring 1,000 feet across, about the size of the Rose Bowl.
In 2029 it will make its first pass around the earth, so close that it will travel
beneath our communication satellites. In fact, you might see it whiz by overhead
with binoculars. Depending on how it whips around the earth, there is a slight
chance it might actually hit the earth when it returns in 2036 (but the latest
calculations only show a one in a hundred thousand chance of impact).

• [2036]

If the one in a hundred thousand chance asteroid does comeback, a hit from Apothis
would be a "country buster", capable of creating fire storms, shock waves, and a
rain of fiery debris that would destroy an area almost the size of France, or
perhaps the entire Northeast of the U.S.. The energy of the impact would be roughly
100,000 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. If it hits the Pacific Ocean, it could
also generate a huge tidal wave, a gigantic wall of water that could swamp most
coastal cities in the Americas and Asia. An impact from an Apophis-like asteroid is
estimated to happen once in a thousand years. (The worst case scenario, however,
would be an impact from a "planet buster" as little as six miles across, like the
one that hit Mexico and probably wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.)