For a brief moment in 2004, a newly discovered asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos carried a genuine, if small, probability of ending civilization as we know it. Over two decades of patient observation, humanity's instruments refined the picture until the threat dissolved entirely — not because the danger was never real, but because knowledge, accumulated carefully, has a way of replacing fear with clarity. On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass closer to Earth than the satellites that carry our phone calls, visible to billions of people across three continents, arriving