NASA also mentioned that it actively detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing 30 million miles of Earth using space and ground-based telescopes.
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NASA says you can ignore all this: there is no asteroid that is going to hit us in September, according to a UPI report.
For years, YouTubers have been predicting the doomsday asteroid to hit near Puerto Rico, triggering a massive natural disaster that will devastate the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America.
“There isn’t a scientific foundation – not one shred of proof – that an asteroid or some other celestial object will impression Earth on these dates,”, supervisor of NASA’s Close to-Earth Object workplace on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
As a matter of fact, NASA researchers have calculated that the likelihood of an asteroid slamming into the Earth over the next 100 years are roughly one hundredth of a percent.
Chodas including other experts on the field are vigilantly on the lookout for rumors or any false news online where they continuously debunk these myths.
“If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now”, said Paul Chodas.
This is not the primary time NASA had made strikes to quell Web hysteria. It’s easy to read stories on the internet, but it takes a trained scientist to watch out for giant chunks of space rock hurtling towards the planet.
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In 2012, as part of supposed Mayan calendar prophecy claiming that the world would end with a massive asteroid impact, and earlier this year, rumors that asteroids 2004 BL86 and 2014 YB35 were on risky near-Earth trajectories proved untrue, and their respective January and March fly-bys occurred without incident, as Near-Earth Office scientists had predicted. “In truth, not a single one of many recognized objects has any credible probability of hitting our planet over the subsequent century”.
