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22 August 2015
No, a giant asteroid will not destroy Earth next month, NASA says
.@NASA brushes off claims of giant asteroid hitting Earth next month http://bit.ly/1NriFz7
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 — The world can breath easy. A giant asteroid is not hurtling towards Earth about to wipe out much of the Americas, NASA has felt compelled to explain following a swirl of online rumours.
Blogs and off-beat news sites have claimed a major asteroid will impact earth in mid-to-late September near Puerto Rico, causing major destruction throughout the region.
But that theory is entirely baseless, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a post this week, trying to damp down the Doomsday predictions.
“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 the Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Paul Chodas.
The lab explained that all known hazardous asteroids have a less than .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,” he said.
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Does your birthday fall on 26 August? Read about what’s in store for you on your birthday in 2032!
A big asteroid to buzz Earth on your birthday in 2032 but is unlikely to hit Earth.
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Published on Oct 16, 2013
Divers recover part of a meteorite, weighing 570 kilograms, which exploded in Chelyabinsk, Russia earlier this year.
The fragment is the largest to be retrieved so far following the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over the southern Urals city on February 15.
Pieces of the meteorite — the largest recorded strike in more than a century — crashed to the bottom of Lake Chebarkul in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region.
Divers searched for the fragments in the lake for two months before finding the meteorite chunk.
“It is beautiful, its gorgeous,” said Nikolai Mizulin, director of the dive company that retrieved the 570 kilogram piece of rock.
More than 1,600 people were injured by the shock wave explosion as the meteor landed.
The force of the shock wave was estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atom bombs.
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Huff Post Science
Big Asteroid To Buzz Earth In 2032 But Unlikely To Hit Planet, NASA Says
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA says a big asteroid that whizzed by Earth last month unnoticed is probably nothing to worry about when it returns much closer in 19 years.
NASA Near-Earth Object program manager Donald Yeomans said there is a 1 in 48,000 chance that the 1,300-foot asteroid will hit Earth when it comes back on Aug. 26, 2032.
The asteroid called 2013 TV135 was discovered Oct. 8, nearly a month after it came within 4.2 million miles of Earth. Yeomans said as astronomers observe and track it better, they will likely calculate that it has no chance of hitting Earth.
Although big, the asteroid is considerably smaller than the type that caused the dinosaur extinction.
NASA posted a “reality check” about the asteroid in response to some media reports.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/19/asteroid-earth-2032-planet-nasa_n_4124148.html
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Express
The end of the world IS nigh: Huge asteroid ‘will hit earth in 2032’ claim astronomers
AN ENORMOUS ASTEROID ‘will’ smash into earth on 26 August 2032 with a force 50 times greater than the most powerful nuclear bomb, it was claimed today.
Published: Fri, October 18, 2013
The existence of the asteroid has been confirmed by astronomers in Italy, Spain, the UK and Russia but Nasa tonight appealed for calm.
The space agency said the threat of the asteroid hitting earth was only one in 63,000 and the likelihood of it missing earth is 99.9984 per cent.
Don Yeomans, manager of Nasa’s Near-Earth Object Programme Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said: “To put it another way, that puts the current probability of no impact in 2032 at about 99.998 per cent.
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