Spacecraft will monitor the passage of an asteroid close to Earth
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that its new Ramses spacecraft will be able to accompany the asteroid Apophis before and after its safe, although very close, passage by Earth.
The space rock, which measures 375 meters in diameter, will come closer to our planet than the satellites in its orbit and 10 times closer than the Moon. Apophis will come so close to Earth that it will be visible to the naked eye for about 2 billion of people in much of Europe, Africa and parts of Asia.
