The asteroid Apophis will safely pass Earth on April 13, 2029. This brief explanatory article examines whether hypothetical collisions with Earth-orbiting satellites could turn the flyby into an impact threat. Drawing on NASA and ESA information and relevant scientific literature, it uses a simplified momentum-transfer estimate to illustrate the scale of a late perturbation, explicitly distinguishing the calculation from a full orbital analysis.
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