The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research, has denied rumours making the rounds that the world will come to an end in a month’s time.
The predictions were first made by an online community of biblical theorists who claimed the space rock will hit the earth sometime between 15 and 28 September, 2015 near Puerto Rico, and would cause widespread destruction along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US, Mexico, and much of Central and South America.
They warned that the impact will end the world..
Several blogs and social media posted the claim. But NASA on Thursday busted the world’s scariest rumour denying there is no asteroid heading towards Earth which would end humankind.
“There is no scientific basis — not one shred of evidence — that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,” NASA’s Near-Earth Object office manager Paul Chodas said.
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, the statement reads.
It goes on to say all known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have less than a 0.01 per cent chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years.
“If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now,” Mr Chodas said.
