99942 Apophis

object that will affect Earth in the future. The second event that took place was the discovery of Apophis June 19, 2004. Apophis was only imaged for two nights and was later seen by, Gordon Garradd, from the Siding Spring Observatory, in New South Wales observatory, December 18, 2004. After his observations of the minor planet, it was predicted that there was a one out of three hundred chance that Apophis will hit Earth in 2029 by a software at NASA’s NEO Program Office and at the University of Pisa