Asteroid Heading for Earth

An asteroid is heading for earth and scientists are worried. Discovered in 2004, a tiny fleck of light among the stars, the asteroid is as big as the Super Bowl. Named Apophis ("The Destroyer" in Greek), is was first thought that it would hit on Friday the 13th, 2029, but more accurate calculations revealed that the hit date is 2036. It may miss earth altogether, but come ten times closer than the moon, lower inside the orbit of communications satellites. If it hits it will deliver the impact of a hundred atomic bombs going off simultaneously. The asteroid is one of many in the solar system, and over the course of thousands of years these impacts are a statistical certainty.