Numerous recent blogs and web postings are erroneously claiming that an asteroid will impact Earth. However, NASA experts say that there is no scientific basis that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates.
That’s the rumor that has gone viral – now here are the facts.
“There is no scientific basis – not one shred of evidence — that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California.
In fact, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program says there have been no asteroids or comets observed that would impact Earth anytime in the foreseeable future. All known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have l<0...
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