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- European Space Agency will launch a mission to study Apophis asteroid
- The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch a mission to study the Apophis asteroid when it passes very close to Earth in 2029.
- ESA is the second major space agency to launch a space mission to study Apophis asteroid.
- Apophis will pass within 32,000 km of the Earth in 2029. It will opportunity to space agencies to study an asteroid from such a close distance.
- An asteroid of such a large size comes this close to the Earth only once in about 5,000 to 10,000 years.
- The Ramses spacecraft would approach the asteroid before it comes to the closest distance to Earth.
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has also expressed its intention of sending a mission to study Apophis.
- The main aim of the study of the asteroids is to develop capabilities to protect the Earth from possible collisions.
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