NASA Confirms: Earth Is Not Going To End in September

Dear Earthlings, we are the victims of another Internet hoax and the world is not getting hit in September by a giant asteroid; at least, according to NASA.

IN FACT, NASA ASSURES WE ARE GOING TO BE SAFE FOR A WHILE

Specialists at NASA note that there are no indications that the world will be destroyed in a matter of months or years, and the possibility of an asteroid hitting Earth in the next century is about 0.01 percent.

WHAT LED NASA TO THE PUBLIC STATEMENT?

The Internet, the place where rumors spread faster than the flu, was full of whispers stating that the world will be hit by an asteroid strike between September 15 and September 28, 2015. NASA felt the need to speak up against bloggers who claimed that the asteroid would wipe America off the face of Earth, and made a public statement saying that our planet is safe.

Paul Chodas, the manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Office, says that if there was an object, large enough to damage Earth that badly, closing in, specialists would have known already. In addition, there’s not one piece of scientific evidence to sustain the rumor. Zero. Nada. As Chodas says, to his knowledge no asteroids are approaching Earth anytime soon since his office spares no expense to track every known and potentially unknown object in space, and the danger of a strike is not likely in the next one hundred years.

THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME NASA CALMS THE MASSES

In 2012, two rumors of an Earth disaster came to light. The Elenin comet, the one that many believed would destroy Earth, led NASA to talk to speak up about it, explaining that the comet was simply a harmless trail of particles that could not damage Earth in any way.

The most popular of all rumors, however, was the one with the world ending on December 21st, 2012, because that was the last day of the Mayan calendar. NASA officials killed the rumor’s veracity months before that date, and historians had already explained that Mayans could not have legitimately predicted any kind of Apocalypse.

Phew.