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Potential Interaction of 99942 Apophis with the High Earth Orbit Population during the 2029 Close Approach

  • Authors: Giulia Schettino, Alessandro Rossi

Giulia Schettino and Alessandro Rossi 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Inclination of objects as a function of the minimum possible distance from Apophis, in the case of the current 2025 population with mean anomaly sampling (left) and in the case of the comprehensive reference population (right). In the left figure, the inset plot shows a zoom of the most populated area. Note the different ranges in the x-axis between the left and right panels. The color bar shows the number of objects in each phase space bin.

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