WASHINGTON: “That’s the rumor that has gone viral – now here are the facts”, it said in a press release entitled “NASA: There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth”.
NASA was forced to speak publicly this week to settle an unfounded rumor about an imminent clash of an asteroid on Earth. “01 % probability of impacting Earth within the subsequent 100 years”, NASA stated.
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.
For years, YouTubers have been predicting the doomsday asteroid to hit near Puerto Rico, triggering a massive quake that will devastate the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America.
Despite these statistics, including the extremely low 1 in 700,000 percent chance of dying from an asteroid collision, the nature of the internet to quickly disseminate information of all types – regardless of authenticity – has once again led to a rampant proliferation of disinformation. If any object was on a trajectory to crash down in the Caribbean, NASA said, Chodas and his colleagues would have already spotted it.
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