We guess we should be thankful for this? An asteroid dubbed Apophis won’t hit the Earth for at least another 100 years, NASA scientists said, after studying the asteroid and its orbit’s worrying proximity to Earth since 2004, the Guardian reports. Scientists had initially worried that Apophis would pass dangerously close to Earth in 2029, 2036, and 2068, but were able to refine the asteroid’s orbit after it passed within 17 mn km of Earth earlier this month, leading to its removal from the list of hazardous asteroids, and leaving Earth safe … for now.

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