[I find it very interesting that the date the asteroid Apophis is supposed to make a close call on (or impact) Earth is Friday the 13th (of April 2029). You can bet that if it was determined with 100% confidence that this asteroid was going to hit the Earth that "they" would make sure the public has no advanced warning whatsoever. We can't have the economy of the world brought to a standstill by giving advance warning to the public about civilization ending asteroid, now can we? . . . SC]

March 30, 2021 by SkyWatch Editor

You may have seen this week where NASA is calling an “all clear” on the impact possibility of Apophis in 2029. But just one of many scientists is warning that NASA’s trajectory calculation of Apophis is off by as much as 600,000 miles, which Harry Lear implies could send Apophis crashing into earth eight years from now on April 13, 2029. Lear sent an open letter to the President and U.S. Government scientists begging them to cross-check these calculations immediately, even though he ends his dispatch with an ominous admonition that we may already be out of time.

Besides Lear, top-100 scientist Nathan Myhrvold in a recent peer-reviewed paper, “An empirical examination of WISE/NEOWISE asteroid analysis and results,” refutes much of the data from NASA and charges them with deliberately miss-reporting threats by near Earth objects and of behaving “extremely deceptively” with deliberate “scientific misconduct” in a cover up of very real and potentially imminent space threats . . .