Breathe easy: NASA says asteroid will not destroy Earth next month

ScienceBreathe easy: NASA says asteroid will not
destroy Earth next month
The world can breathe easy. A giant asteroid is not
hurtling toward Earth about to wipe out much of the
Americas, NASA has felt compelled to explain following
a swirl of online rumors. Blogs and offbeat news sites
have claimed a major asteroid will impact Earth in mid-
to late September near Puerto Rico, causing major
destruction throughout the region.
There is no scientific basis — not one shred of evidence
— that an asteroid or any other celestial object will
impact Earth on those dates.
Paul Chodas, manager of the Near-Earth Object office at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
But that theory is entirely baseless, NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory said in a post this week, trying to
tamp down the doomsday predictions. NASA pointed out
that doomsday theorists have made similar predictions
in the past, including the Mayan calendar claim in 2012,
all of which were not backed up by science and turned
out to be false.