NASA says 'There is Nno Asteroid threatening to hit Earth'

A viral false asteroid report that claims an asteroid will impact Earth near Puerto Rico sometime between September. 15 and 28, 2015 is not true, NASA states.

"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 JPL, in a statement.

The viral rumour making the rounds on various blogs and websites over the past month claim the impact will cause destruction along coastal regions of the U.S., Mexico, Central America and South America.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program says All known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have less than a 0.01 percent chance of slamming into Earth in the next 100 years.

"Again, there is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth," said Chodas. "In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century."

If a giant celestial mass was hurtling towards earth, Chodas and an international network international of astronomers and scientists who observe the sky would definitely know about it.

"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 said.

NASA is no stranger dealing with doomsday asteroid rumours. In 2011, Comet Elenin was rumoured to impact Earth and internet hype insisted the Mayan calendar would end with a asteroid impact on December 21, 2012.

Asteroids 2004 BL86 and 2014 YB35 flew safely by Earth in January and March earlier this year. Both were built up online as being on dangerous near-Earth trajectories.