In response to online rumors about a massive asteroid strike between September 15 and 28, the U.S. space agency sought to clarify “numerous recent blogs and web postings” as false. “All recognized Probably Hazardous Asteroids have lower than a zero”.
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However, the manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Paul Chodas, wrote in a statement posted to the agency’s website that there is no scientific evidence for those claims since no one from the reports came with evidence that an asteroid or any other space object is on its way to impact Earth around those dates. This, of course, would bring about the destruction of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. In fact, over the next 100 years, all known potentially risky asteroids are less than 0.01 percent likely to hit earth.
At that time, NASA’s scientists used two giant radio telescopes to produce images of a peanut-shaped astral body approaching close to Earth. NASA added that this is not the first time, rumors of a celestial object impacting Earth have been made, and unfortunately it won’t be the last. What actually happened is that it broke up into small pieces in space.
“If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now”. Others, too, have missed Earth “simply as NASA stated they might”, the area company stated.
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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 unsafe near-Earth trajectories proved untrue, and their respective January and March fly-bys occurred without incident, as Near-Earth Office scientists had predicted. “In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century”, Chodas emphasized.
