All kinds of news tend to circulate in social networks, today we will tell you about a very particular one: The prophecy stating that Planet X or Nibiru will collide with Earth on September 23, 2017, it is worth noting that has been denied by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA for its acronym in English.
This prophecy was unveiled a few years ago when stated that the disaster would occur in May 2003, When nothing happened, their believers made a new interpretation by December 2012, by making the connection to the end of one of the cycles of the Mayan calendar.
In 2012 NASA on the occasion of the alleged apocalypse that year, he published an article in which he was blunt: “If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed toward Earth, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the last decade, and it would now be visible to the naked eye. Obviously, it doesn't exist.
But again In the last few weeks, the network has been circulating again., This time it includes a documentary called “The Sign”, its faithful believers claim to combine astronomy, scientific research and Bible passages to back up their prediction. However, they have been totally denied by NASA again.
First of all, how do space rocks differ?
In space there are different space rocks that occasionally collide with or fall to Earth, these celestial bodies are called by different names according to their size, chemical composition and location, today we explain how they are defined:
Asteroid: Sometimes they are called minor planets and are relatively small rocky bodies orbiting the Sun.
Comet: Is a small body consisting of ice and rocks, sometimes active. Sunlight usually vaporizes the object's ice, forming a tail of dust and gas.
Meteoroid: It is a small particle from a comet or asteroid from 100 micrometers to 50 meters in diameter, orbiting the Sun.
Meteor: It is the name used to designate the light phenomenon occurring when a meteoroid passes through the atmosphere and evaporates. It is better known as “shooting star”.
Meteorite: The debris surviving the atmospheric journey and landing on Earth are called meteorites. They can be studied to gather information about the formation of our Solar System.
An asteroid that could be a threat to the Earth
The POT explains that, about once a year, an asteroid the size of a car hits the Earth's atmosphere creating a large fireball and usually do not cause any damage. However in February 2013, an asteroid 18 meters across and weighing 11,000 metric tons, through our atmosphere and exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia. Its explosion occurred about 23.3 kilometers above Chelyabinsk, but still injured hundreds of people and shattered the windows of buildings.
At the moment the asteroid that poses the greatest threat to the Earth, according to Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, is Asteroid 1950 DA.
The expert revealed that could “impact in the year 2880”.”, the asteroid is approximately 1.3 kilometers wide and the chances of it hitting our planet are 1 in 8,000.
What is being done in the face of all these dangerous space rocks?
The NASA created an office in 2016, which sounds like something out of Star Wars: The Planetary Defense Coordination Office, which is in charge of helping to find dangerous asteroids and comets, as well as working with the U.S. government to develop a plan to respond to a real impact threat. For its part, the United Nations (UN) calls for several annual competitions in which it invites the world's population to propose ways to divert asteroids from their trajectory without destroying them.
Asteroid Day
Astrophysicist Brian May, better known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen, helped create Asteroid Day 2016, to educate the public about the dangers of asteroids.
The United Nations decreed the June 30 as a world day of education for increase awareness and also to commemorate the impact on Russia's forested Siberia, The earthquake, in the vicinity of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, felled millions of trees and affected more than 2,000 square kilometers of territory.
The official website of the UN says international day will raise public awareness of asteroid impact risks, The project is aimed at developing communication measures in the event of a threat and creating an international response to the NEO threat.
On the Internet we will always find pages dedicated to create ffake news and propagandas “fake news”, It is therefore of utmost importance that you identify them for a good flow of information, you must be responsible and make sure you have reliable sources, remember “all that glitters is not gold” and the world will not end tomorrow.
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