Download or read book Asteroid Apophis written by John S Pritchett and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apophis was the venerable Egyptian divinity who embodied chaos. He shows up in literature as a giant snake. Egyptians viewed Apophis as the highest adversary of Ra, the Sun god, and therefore provided him the title Enemy of Ra, and "the Lord of Chaos". Apophis is also the formal Minor Planet Center number-name combination extended to the asteroid 99942-Apophis, headed towards Earth.