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Paolo
post Oct 6 2008, 07:53 PM
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no sone seems to have noticed this yet
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post Mar 26 2021, 03:53 PM
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New radar images of Apophis; very pixelly, but seems to be a peanut shape, as is common.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-analy...-100-plus-years

And more importantly: impacts ruled out of the next century, due to the precision of the measurements.
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post Jun 17 2021, 12:29 AM
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QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Mar 26 2021, 04:53 PM) *
New radar images of Apophis; very pixelly, but seems to be a peanut shape, as is common.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-analy...-100-plus-years

And more importantly: impacts ruled out of the next century, due to the precision of the measurements.


this is the most accurate shape model we have for this particular rock
https://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/brozovi...pophis.2018.pdf

a user from the celestia forums contacted the author of the paper above
and sent the shape model (obj), sence the user that contacted the author is not a member here, i'll post it for you guys
Attached File  apophis_model_2018.zip ( 43.58K ) Number of downloads: 427



its a good thing apophis will not hit earth our lifetime!
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