In 2004, NASA scientists announced that there was a chance that Apophis, an asteroid larger than two football fields, could smash into Earth in 2029. A few additional observations and some number-crunching later, astronomers noted that the chance of the planet-killer hitting Earth in 2029 was nearly zilch.
Now, reports out of Russia say that scientists there estimate Apophis will collide with Earth on April 13, 2036. These reports conflict on the probability of such a doomsday event, but the question remains: How scared should we be?
“Technically, they’re correct, there is a chance in 2036 [that Apophis will hit Earth]," said Donald Yeomans, head of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office. However, that chance is just 1-in-250,000, Yeomans said.
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The Russian scientists are basing their predictions of a collision on the chance that the 900-foot-long (270 meters) Apophis will travel through what’s called a gravitational keyhole as it passes by Earth in 2029. The gravitational keyhole they mention is a precise region in space, only slightly larger than the asteroid itself, in which the effect of Earth's gravity is such that it could tweak Apophis' path.
“The situation is that in 2029, April 13, [Apophis] flies very close to the Earth, within five Earth radii, so that will be quite an event, but we’ve already ruled out the possibility of it hitting at that time,” Yeomans told Life’s Little Mysteries. “On the other hand, if it goes through what we call a keyhole during that close Earth approach … then it will indeed be perturbed just right so that it will come back and smack Earth on April 13, 2036,” Yeomans said.
The chances of the asteroid going through the keyhole, which is tiny compared to the asteroid, are “minuscule,” Yeomans added.
The more likely scenario is this: Apophis will make a fairly close approach to Earth in late 2012 and early 2013, and will be extensively observed with ground-based optical telescopes and radar systems. If it seems to be heading on a destructive path, NASA will devise the scheme and machinery necessary to change the asteroid’s orbit, decreasing the probability of a collision in 2036 to zero, Yeomans said.
There are several ways to change an asteroid’s orbit, the simplest of which is to run a spacecraft into the hurtling rock. This technology was used on July 4, 2005, when Deep Impact smashed into the comet Temple 1.

Who- Donald Yeomans

What- The asteroid Apophis

When- 2036

Where- Earth

How- Earth’s gravitational pull is pulling the asteroid closer to Earth

In 2004 scientists found out that there is a chance that an asteroid might hit Earth in 2029. But Russian scientists think it will hit in 2036. The asteroid is called Apophis. The asteroid is 900-foot-long. That is longer than 2 football fields. Scientists want to run a space craft into the asteroid to stop its orbit.

Social networking is very addictive. It lets you do things you could never do before. You can stay in touch with friends and family and not drift away. And people who just started using social networks have found old friends and family and started talking to them again. But some people who use social networks try and steel other people’s profiles. Dating websites have sent hacks to people and they clicked on them and it would mess up their profile or delete it. So you can’t trust everyone on who uses a social network.  

Home Sweet Home

When I grow up I want to move back to Walled Lake Michigan. I would be in school training to be a pharmacist saving up for a house out there. While I would be saving up for a house I would live on campus at Michigan University. The rent would probably be about 500 dollars. Once I have enough money I would move to Novi and buy a 960 square foot apartment in The Springs. I would want to live out there because it’s where I grew up and it’s a good place to raise children and has a very good school system.

Rent: 610-895$

Happy Thanksgiving

I’m thankful for so many things. I’m thankful for a family that cares and supports me for a lot of things. They always help me with my problems even when I say I don’t need them to help. They are always there for me.  I’m also thankful for fun things like video games and sports. I don’t play video games that much but when I do I have a lot of fun playing them especially with friends. I’m extremely thankful for my friends because they are there for me when I need it the most. I’m thankful for a good education system like Livonia so I can get good knowledge of the things I am required to know. But one of the things I am most thankful for is music, especially rock n roll. If I haven’t discovered music like that I don’t think my life would be the same at all. Music inspires me into dong a lot of things. But what I’m most thankful for is in 8^th grade when my social studies teacher sat me next to someone that ended up being my best friend. We’ve had some really good times together. Those are the things that I am thankful for.

Career Exploration

The two careers that I chose from my career matchmaker results are musician and pharmacist. The first one I’m going to write about it pharmacist. The kind of degree you need is a Pharm.D. Michigan University can offer the education needed. You must have 3 or 4 years of training until you can become a pharmacist. It cost about 75,000 to 150,000 dollars to get the education needed to become a pharmacist. The kind of work that I would be doing is filling prescriptions. I would be making 15 dollars an hour and about 1,445 dollars a week. The next career is musician. You don’t necessarily need a degree to be a musician unless it is an orchestra or a choir. If you don’t know how to play an instrument you can go to any school and they will offer lessons to teach you how to play the instrument you want to play. Being a musician requires a lot of training such as practice. The kind of work I would be doing is getting new equipment and hiring managers and booking gigs. What you get paid depends on how many people paid for tickets to your show.  

You must be kidding!!!

1.  What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

2.  You can keep it only after giving it away to someone else. What is it?

 3. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

4. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

5.You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again

6. What question can you never honestly answer yes to?

7. What building has the most stories?

8. What's white when it’s dirty?

9. Which is faster, hot or cold?

10. What word looks the same upside down and backwards?

In Ten Years

                                             

In ten years I’m not exactly sure what I want to do. I probably won’t move out of Michigan but I won’t be living in Livonia. I plan on moving back to Walled Lake, my home town. I would like to live in a house not an apartment with a bunch other people or anything like that.

To get around I would drive a car. I don’t know what kind of car I would get because the cars I would like to drive are much too expensive to the average American to bye.

I probably would be in school but it would depend on how many years I want to take when I get there. I want to attend Michigan University. I would probably get a job on campus but I’m not sure what it would be, it depends on my interests when I’m at that age.

 On my spare time I would work out and study if I was still in college. I would do other things like play video games but not as frequently as I do now. I would spend plenty of time with my friends and family when I ever I get the chance to.

I’m sure I would have a girlfriend at the time but I don’t know how long it would last so I don’t think that that is too important.

Besides studying, working out, and hanging out with friends and family I would practice playing the guitar and hopefully try to peruse a music career but if that doesn’t work out then I would find a well paying job that interests me and stick with that.