It will not drop an asteroid near Puerto Rico according to NASA – The New Dia.com

The NASA yesterday rejected rumors that a large asteroid is about to fall near Puerto Rico, causing an earthquake and tsunami that kill millions of people worldwide.

In recent years US space agency has denied forecasts of a disaster on a planetary level caused by the fall of a comet or asteroid.

“Many blogs and online publications have recently claimed that an asteroid will hit the Earth, between 15 and 28 September 2015. In one of those days, rumors say, there will be an impact, ‘ obviously ‘near Puerto Rico, causing destruction along the Atlantic and Gulf (of Mexico), United States, Mexico and Central and South America, “said NASA in a statement.

The agency US exploration and space research and atmospheric noted that the rumors have become viral. Sometimes some Internet postings claim, falsely, that NASA is anticipated that the fall of a large asteroid on the planet.

“There is no scientific basis nor a chispito of evidence that an asteroid or other celestial object impact Earth at that time, “said Paul Chodas, office manager of objects near the Earth’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA.

9 months

The FDA ago reported that” no observed comets or asteroids that will impact the Earth at any time in the near future. ” All considered potentially dangerous asteroids are less than 0.01% probability of hitting the Earth in the next 100 years.

Chodas said the JPL scientists and astronomers working with the world to watch the sky with their telescopes , searching for asteroids that may endanger the planet and determine its path through space in the future.

“If there is any big enough to cause destruction (which is forecast) for September object, would that information and “said Chodas.

Rumor repeated

The scientist said rumors that the Earth will be hit by a large celestial object are repeated again and again, without proof, on the Internet.

In 2011 it was rumored that the comet Elenin end the planet, what did not happen. In the year 2012 was set as the date of the end of the world December 21, based on the Mayan calendar. And this year indicated that the asteroid 2004 BL86 and 2014 YB35 would hit the planet, but its passage in January and March was without incident, said Chodas.

NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets They are passing close to Earth using ground-based telescopes and space. So far it has not found one that threatens the planet. Only continuous fall of small asteroids that burn up in the atmosphere way, NASA concluded.