Next week might be the end of the world. That's what a research expert had said about the alleged meteor strike that will hit the Earth next week. According to the reports, an expert warns scientists to take the threat of mass destruction seriously despite NASA's reassurances that we're safe.
The world could end soon because of a catastrophic meteor impact. According to conspiracy theorists, the Earth's final day could come anywhere from Sept. 22 to Sept. 28. Daily Mirror revealed they predicted a plethora of environmental horrors including meteor strikes, earthquakes and tsunamis, which are believed to rain down on Earth next week.
Moreover, the Blue Moon Prophecy claimed that the Earth will see its end on Sept. 28 when a 2.5-mile wide asteroid crashes into Puerto Rico.
"[An] asteroid will enter the airspace of the town of Arecibo in Puerto Rico, striking the sea between the island of Mona and Mayaguez and triggering a magnitude 12 earthquake," self-proclaimed prophet Efrain Rodriguez said. He also passed his research to NASA, claiming the disaster looms when a lunar eclipse, which took place in April 2014, is followed by six full moons.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), however, said if there was a meteor big enough to destroy the world, they would have identified it already since the space agency's Near Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is constantly monitoring the skies for asteroids that could possible harm the Earth, Daily Star reported.
"NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small," a NASA spokesperson said.
The University of Central Lancashire Research Executive Director and Professor Robert Walsh, however, insisted that any meteor threat should be taken seriously.
"What you may not realize is that Earth is hit with about a hundred tons of extraterrestrial material every day!" Walsh said, as per Scotland Now. "However, this debris is in the form of numerous small rocks, the majority of which burn up in the planet's atmosphere.
"Earth has experienced very destructive impacts in the past — just ask any dinosaur; oh wait, you can't!" he added. "The Earth-smashing asteroid in that case has been estimated to be around 10 km across. So we have to take the threat seriously."
Professor Walsh also mentioned how Earth had a close apocalypse call in 2013 where a truck-sized space rock exploded in the skies above Chelyabinsk, Siberia. The impact resulted to hundreds of people getting injured. But the result could be more devastating if the 2013 event will hit a densely populated area such as Beijing, London and New York.
Could NASA really miss an asteroid traveling at speed? The answer is no since the international astronomy community is taking the slim threat of a devastating collision with asteroid seriously. And NASA's "Spaceguard" programme also detects and monitors these objects as well as trying to determine their nature including their mass or composition.
So, do you believe that it's gonna be the end of the world next week?
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