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"What this research shows is many of these meteoroids don’t even make it that far." The study doesn't just address the question of why so few carbonaceous meteoroids are found on Earth.

In four years, on 13 April 2029 to be exact, a large asteroid named Apophis will fly by Earth just 32,000 kilometres ... planning for the day it would make its exceptionally close flyby.

The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.