"Again, there is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth," said Chodas. And just this year, asteroids 2004 BL YB35 were said to be on dangerous near-Earth trajectories, but their flybys of our planet in January and March went without incident-just as NASA said they would. NASA extended the mission three times to take advantage of Galileo's unique science capabilities, and it was put on a collision course into Jupiter's atmosphere in September 2003 to eliminate any chance of impacting Europa. 21, 2012, insisting the world would end with a large asteroid impact. The probe was the first to fly by an asteroid and discover the moon of an asteroid. Just 23 days earlier, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first man in space. The intricate maneuver, conducted more than. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch. NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down briefly on an asteroid Tuesday, gathering samples of the space rock that will be delivered to Earth in 2023. Then there were Internet assertions surrounding the end of the Mayan calendar on Dec. Light This Candle (NASAs Age: 19 months) May 5, 1961: Lighting candles has a double meaning at NASA thanks to Alan Shepard, the first American in space. In 2011 there were rumors about the so-called "doomsday" comet Elenin, which never posed any danger of harming Earth and broke up into a stream of small debris out in space. It seems to be a perennial favorite of the World Wide Web.
"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 stated.Īnother thing Chodas and his team do know-this isn't the first time a wild, unsubstantiated claim of a celestial object about to impact Earth has been made, and unfortunately, it probably won't be the last. If there were any observations on anything headed our way, Chodas and his colleagues would know about it. The Near-Earth Object office at JPL is a key group involved with the international collaboration of astronomers and scientists who keep watch on the sky with their telescopes, looking for asteroids that could do harm to our planet and predicting their paths through space for the foreseeable future. These images show that many of the features commonly associated with lakes on Earth, such as islands, bays, inlets and channels, are also present on this cold Saturnian moon. All known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have less than a 0.01% chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years. Published: MaThis movie, comprised of several detailed images taken by Cassinis radar instrument, shows bodies of liquid near Titans north pole. In fact, 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.
"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 Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. That's the rumor that has gone viral-now here are the facts.
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