#Evidence of nasa asteroid watch full#

And the Asteroid Watch social-media team’s patience remains We've replied to you numerous times. 5 feet, and poses no threat to Earth NASA has revealed the asteroid to An asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the Sun None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time The images show the OSIRIS-REx space probe thumping the asteroids surface, throwing. There is no asteroid on an imminent collision course with our pale blue dot. said there is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth. During a White House event on climate change, Fabius told Secretary of State John Kerry that the Earth’s governments had “500 days to avoid climate chaos.” Little did he know that rapture-ready listeners would quickly suss out that he was referring to an asteroid impact 500 days from that day, or late September 2015.īut the world isn’t ending any time soon.

#Evidence of nasa asteroid watch full#

Full image and caption Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This artists concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. This spectrum has been compared with laboratory spectra of meteorites and shows great similarity to the spectra of type II carbonaceous chondrites. 8, 2013 Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the bright star Vega, as illustrated here at left in brown. An absorption feature centred near 3.0 microns has been discovered in the infrared spectrum of asteroid 1 Ceres. The latest rumor about a giant asteroid heading our way seems to have begun when Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, visited the United States. NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around Vega Jan. All known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have less than a 0.01% chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years. 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.

The mission, which has not yet fully funded. NASA‘s Asteroid Watch Twitter account, run by staff from its Near Earth Object Office, has been bombarded for months by questions from conspiracy theorists asking if the world will end in September, when a giant asteroid is rumored to collide with our planet.Īfter patiently responding to panicked Twitter users over the course of those months, NASA decided to go a step further and issue a press release officially declaring September a giant-asteroid-free month. A planned NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) joint mission is poised to test whether it is possible to knock an asteroid from one orbit into another. A two-mile-wide asteroid will not be wiping out the Earth in September, so you can cross that off your list of things to fear.