CANADA: NASA would have already spotted the asteroid if one was indeed bearing down on the Earth for a strike next month, the space agency stated last week.
To intercept and destroy field of rumors placing an asteroid strike between Sept. 15 and 28, NASA’s Paul Chodas, issued an official statement through NASA’s press office.
“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 the manager of space agency’s Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now.”
Spaceguard, the nickname for the Near Earth Object office, tracks asteroids within 30 million miles of the Earth. It characterizes each of them and predicts their paths.
NASA pointed to the various rumors about world-wrecking rocks that have been spread over the years, asserting that such false narratives will continue and education is its best tool in discounting them.
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