According to NASA, if Apophis hit the Earth, it could release more than 100,000 times the energy of the Tunguska event. Thousands of square kilometers could vaporize in the blast, but the whole Earth would suffer from the loss of sunlight and other effects of the dust released into the atmosphere.
据美国航天局（ NASA ）预测，如果阿波菲斯撞击地球，其释放出来的能量将比通古斯大爆炸强 10 万倍以上。爆炸将摧毁数千平方公里内的一切事物，扬起的尘埃将遮蔽太阳光并引发其他后果，使全球都受到影响。难怪俄罗斯研究人员给阿波菲斯起了个绰号，叫“来自太空的恐怖分子”。