Mexico, DF.- Numerous recent blogs and online publications are falsely claiming that a asteroid impact the Earth , sometime between 15 and 28 September This 2015
The rumors suggest that there will be an impact – “obviously” near Puerto Rico, causing destruction along the coasts of the United States and Mexico as well as Central and South Atlantic and . Gulf
That’s the rumor has become viral and to clarify the facts, the NASA states:
“There is no scientific basis, or evidence that a asteroid or any other celestial object impact the Earth at that time, “said Paul Chodas, office manager for objects close to the Earth NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
A release of the NASA is your website detailing the observations of this program says that there has been observed asteroids or comets that could affect the Earth at any time in the foreseeable future. All asteroids known and potentially dangerous have a probability of less than 0.01% to hit Earth in the next 100 years.
The office Near- Earth at JPL objects is a key group involved with international collaboration of astronomers and scientists who watch the sky with their telescopes, looking for asteroids They could do damage to our planet and predict their paths through space for the future.
“If there was any object large enough to make that kind of destruction in September, would have seen some of that now,” he said.
“Once again, no existing evidence that a asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact the Earth “Chodas said. “In fact, not one of the known objects have any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century.”
NASA detects and characterizes asteroids and comets passing 30 million miles from the Earth using both ground and space telescopes.
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