Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Sept 4, 2020 17:08:00 GMT 2
(.#517).- NASA denies rumors of a collision between Earth and a large asteroid.
End of the world: NASA denies rumors of an imminent shock between Earth and an asteroid.
The HuffPost with AFP
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ESPACE - Earthlings can rest easy: no giant asteroid threatens to collide with the blue planet and destroy America (or even the rest of the Earth) in September. At least that's what NASA ensures, which wants to silence a multitude of catastrophic rumors circulating online.
"There is no scientific basis, not a shadow of evidence, that an asteroid or any other celestial object is likely to collide with the Earth on these dates," an official said on Wednesday. NASA, Paul Chodas, on the blog of the prestigious program of the agency responsible for detecting comets and asteroids.
Less than 0.01% chance of this happening
All known asteroids today have a less than 0.01% chance of colliding with Earth in the next 100 years, program officials said in a post on Wednesday. "If there was an object large enough to cause this kind of destruction in September, we would have already seen something," added Paul Chodas.
NASA is trying to thwart rumors circulating on the internet, claiming that an asteroid will collide with Earth between mid and late September near Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean. "NASA detects, tracks and records descriptions of asteroids and comets passing 48 million kilometers from Earth using telescopes installed on the ground or in space," said the NASA message.
F I N .
End of the world: NASA denies rumors of an imminent shock between Earth and an asteroid.
The HuffPost with AFP
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ESPACE - Earthlings can rest easy: no giant asteroid threatens to collide with the blue planet and destroy America (or even the rest of the Earth) in September. At least that's what NASA ensures, which wants to silence a multitude of catastrophic rumors circulating online.
"There is no scientific basis, not a shadow of evidence, that an asteroid or any other celestial object is likely to collide with the Earth on these dates," an official said on Wednesday. NASA, Paul Chodas, on the blog of the prestigious program of the agency responsible for detecting comets and asteroids.
Less than 0.01% chance of this happening
All known asteroids today have a less than 0.01% chance of colliding with Earth in the next 100 years, program officials said in a post on Wednesday. "If there was an object large enough to cause this kind of destruction in September, we would have already seen something," added Paul Chodas.
NASA is trying to thwart rumors circulating on the internet, claiming that an asteroid will collide with Earth between mid and late September near Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean. "NASA detects, tracks and records descriptions of asteroids and comets passing 48 million kilometers from Earth using telescopes installed on the ground or in space," said the NASA message.
F I N .
