'God of Chaos' Asteroid will hit Earth and we have no defense, says Elon Musk

Musk in a tweet on Monday said Earth currently has no defense against asteroids.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a tweeted and wrote, "Wouldn't worry about this particular one, but a big rock will hit Earth eventually & we currently have no defense."

The asteroid that Elon Musk talks to is Apophis, named after the Egyptian God of Chaos. According to NASA, It is expected to come as close as ~31,000 kilometers to the surface and will take place on 13 April 2019, when a speck of light will streak across the sky, getting brighter and faster.

The asteroid won’t be a satellite or an airplane it will be a 340-meter-wide near-Earth asteroid Apophis that will pass harmlessly by Earth, about 31,000 km above the surface.

"The Apophis close approach in 2029 will be an incredible opportunity for science," said Marina Brozovic, a radar scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who works on radar observations of near-Earth objects (NEOs).

"We'll observe the asteroid with both optical and radar telescopes. With radar observations, we might be able to see surface details that are only a few meters in size," she added.

"Current calculations show that Apophis still has a small chance of impacting Earth, less than 1 in 100,000 many decades from now, but future measurements of its position can be expected to rule out any possible impacts," said NASA recently.

Great name! Wouldn’t worry about this particular one, but a big rock will hit Earth eventually & we currently have no defense. https://t.co/XhY8uoNNax

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 18, 2019