Conspiracy Theorists and doom prophets claim an asteroid will wipe out life on the planet in a matter of weeks – anytime between September 21 and 28 in fact.
Dates range from September 21 to the end, but most are homing in on between September 23 or 24 due to a range of Bible codes, so-called prophecies, and alleged other predictions.
However, according to express.co.uk, the Blood Moon Prophecy, says the end is nigh on September 28 as that coincides with the last of four ‘blood moons’ (total eclipses followed with six full moons in between) over the past 18 months.
The claim appears to have its origins in a self-proclaimed prophet Rev Efraid Rodriguez, who says he wrote to Nasa warning of the strike after receiving a message from God.
He claims he saw a vision of it “entering the airspace of the town of Arecibo in Puerto Rico, striking the sea between the island of Mona and Mayagüez and triggering a magnitude 12 earthquake.
Many ‘end of world’ prophesies have clearly been made before and passed without incident.
Still, the latest online doomsday prophecies have been read by so many people that NASA was forced to issue a statement, that it reiterated this week, saying the chances of an impact around that time or within the next few hundred years were next to zero.
Paul Chodas, of Nasa’s Near-Earth Object office at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, said: “There is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth.”In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century.”Nasa has also published a statement on its website reassuring the global public the scare stories are not true.Mr Chodas added: “There is no scientific basis, not one shred of evidence, that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates.”If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now.”Nasa DOES tracks about 13,000 “near-Earth asteroids” but accepts this figure is only about 2% of those out there and it has no idea of the whereabouts to the remaining 98% of them.Of the 13,000 around 1,607 are classified as “potentially hazardous” meaning they are big enough and come within a few million miles of Earth – a distance considered a brush past in cosmic terms.
Meanwhile, PM News also reported that, sales for freeze-dried food, flashlights, blankets and tents have soared in Utah in recent weeks as some Mormons have begun to prepare for the end of the world.
The so-called “preppers” believe the world is ending this month based on biblical prophecies, the Hebrew calendar, an unstable economy, world politics and astronomical occurrences, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Sunday.
“There is a sense of urgency, like something is up. A lot of people are mentioning things about September, like a financial collapse,” said customer-service representative Ricardo Aranda at American Fork’s Thrive Life, which sells mostly freeze-dried food.
The Mormon apocalypse believers claim the Jewish High Holy Days that began this week will trigger a financial crisis based on the United States’ “wickedness.” They predict the full moon on Sept. 28 is the next sign of the world is ending.
Some of these speculations stem from Julie Rowe’s books, “A Greater Tomorrow: My Journey Beyond the Veil” and “The Time Is Now.” Rowe, a Mormon mother of three, published the books in 2014 to detail a “near-death experience.” Her two books have sold more than 20,000 copies each.
Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they do not endorse the books or their teachings. The late Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer said in a 2011 LDS General Conference that the “end” was not near and called on young Latter-day Saints to plan for long, productive lives.
“You can look forward to doing it right,” Packer said, ” — getting married, having a family, seeing your children and grandchildren, maybe even great-grandchildren.”
Officials have had to debunk end-of-days predictions in the past. Last month, NASA confirmed that the world would not end in September because of an imminent asteroid strike.
“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, at the time. “If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now.”
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