It’s been claimed that an asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness is on a collision course with our planet.

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) It's said the chances of a collision are about 1 in 100,000, which is small but not not completely infeasible either.

... the asteroid depicted in the HuffPo video is not comparable to Apophis. Apophis will fly extremely close to Earth in 2029 and 2036, but won't hit our planet. The Truth About Close-Passing Asteroid Apophis. When first discovered in 2014, Apophis had a record-breaking collision risk of four on the Torino scale.Steve Chesley, a NASA scientist, along with Paul Khodas from the jet propulsion laboratory of NASA, have now predicted the collision will occur on April 13, 2036.

Apophis asteroid will interestingly pass by Earth on a near-miss Earth trajectory on a Friday the 13th (April 13, 2029), gracing a day considered unlucky in Western superstition. At a Glance. The Apophis asteroid appears in telescopes as nothing more than a moving speck of light. The asteroid Apophis is set to “skim the surface” of the planet in 2029 at an astounding distance of just 19,000 miles. The asteroid will pass within 19,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029. NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Aphophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The mega space rock – dubbed 99942 Apophis – is hurtling towards Earth on a collision course for the date Friday April 13, 2029. In 2029, a massive asteroid called 99942 Apophis will fly past our planet at an approximate distance of 19,000 miles within the distance of some orbiting spacecraft. Educational YouTube channel Second Thought explained in a video … New observations of the huge asteroid Apophis show it will not hit Earth in 2036, NASA scientists say. TERRIFYING: NASA scientists think a deadly asteroid will hit in 2036 (Image: Getty). If the massive celestial lump, nearly as a big as a small mountain, collides with the planet it would spark the biggest earthquake ever recorded.

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is likely to fly past Earth in 2029 and 2036 without any impact. Even more impressively, it’s the jumping-off point for 2011 video game Rage, which unfolds in the aftermath of global devastation initiated by a collision with Apophis. Known as 99942 Apophis, it is named for an Egyptian god of chaos and destruction.