No Asteroid Is Threatening to Hit Earth Next Month, NASA Says

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No Asteroid Is Threatening to Hit Earth Next Month, NASA Says

There's no reason to fear a devastating asteroid strike next month, NASA experts say.

For the last few months, rumors have circulated on the Internet that a big asteroid will slam into Earth near Puerto Rico between Sept. 15 and Sept. 28, wreaking widespread destruction throughout coastal regions of the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America.

Don't believe the hype.

"There is no scientific basis — not one shred of evidence — that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates," Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. "If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now."

Astronomers based at the Near-Earth Object office and other institutions around the world use a variety of telescopes to hunt for potentially hazardous asteroids and comets, and they haven't observed anything that poses a serious threat to Earth for the foreseeable future, NASA officials said.

"Again, there is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth," Chodas stressed. "In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century."

Experts such as Chodas must increasingly wade into the Internet's murky waters to debunk the myths swirling there.

In 2011, for example, rumors grew that the harmless comet Elenin was a "doomsday" object that would inflict severe damage upon the Earth. And some conspiracy theorists claimed that a cosmic impact would wipe out humanity on Dec. 21, 2012, the day that one cycle of the Mayan long-count calendar came to an end.

Just this year, fears were raised about the near-Earth asteroids 2004 BL86 and 2014 YB35, which flew harmlessly past the planet in January and March, respectively — just as NASA scientists had predicted the asteroids would.

All of this is not to claim that Earth won't get hit by a cosmic object next month. The planet is pelted by dust and chunks of space rock all the time, but almost all of this material is so small that it burns up harmlessly in Earth's atmosphere.



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check the date and this is before 2012..bwhahahahahahahah

http://www.livescience.com/16606-failed-doomsday-predictions-apocalypse.html


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by Benjamin Radford, Live Science Contributor   |   October 19, 2011 09:21am ET

[ArMaP]

I suppose they should have said "no known asteroid to hit Earth next month". 

[rdunk]

I suppose they should have said "no known asteroid to hit Earth next month". 

Yes ArMaP, one would wonder why NASA termed it that way - I suppose one thing at least, if anything happens during that time, we should know it is not an asteroid causing it - maybe Planet X! Or maybe God!

September 15 and September 28 are interesting dates. Sept. 15 happens to be the ending day for God's Feast of Trumpets, which is one of the seven Feasts he ordained the Jews to observe each year. Sept. 28 is the day for starting the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot, and Sept. 28 is also the date for the 4th Red Blood Moon of the current tetrad.

A lot of ink has been used in talking about these. Of course, the Feast of Trumpets is observed every year, but the Red Blood Moon tetrads only occur infrequently. In the history of the Jews, significant events have been linked to the occurrence of Blood Moons! The Feast of Trumpets is thought by many to be the specific time when the rapture of the Church will occur, whenever that happens. Then, the Feast of Tabernacles is also considered by many to be the specific time of the return of Jesus to this Earth.

So, this time of year does give Jews cause to observe God's Feasts, and likewise also gives Christians things to think about. And this year, there is a Red Blood Moon thrown into the mix!! Maybe no asteroid, but..................!!!