NASA launches mission to intercept ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid

Fresh from its historic mission to collect samples from an asteroid in deep space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is embarking on a new task: studying another asteroid during its close encounter with Earth.

Completing its seven-year, 4 billion-mile round-trip journey to gather samples from the space rock Bennu in September, the team behind OSIRIS-REx proposed extending its mission to study the asteroid Apophis.

Apophis is anticipated to pass closer to Earth in 2029 than any other asteroid of similar size in recorded history.

Rebranded as OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Apophis Explorer), the spacecraft will investigate the more than 1,000-foot-wide Apophis, named after an Egyptian deity and dubbed the “God of Chaos.”

This asteroid, discovered in 2004, is projected to approach within 20,000 miles of Earth’s surface — closer than some satellites — on April 13, 2029, Fox News reported.

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