Large asteroid misses Earth

arth has just survived a potential Earth collision. NASA released a statement this past week that asteroid 86666 (2000 FL 10) was going to pass safely by Earth on Saturday, October 11 2015.

"It poses zero threat." The office tweeted.

The asteroid's is estimated to be as large as 1.5 miles, according to the NASA Near-Earth Object Program.

On October 9, 2015 NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab's Near Earth Object Office, which tracks asteroids, said it would not come closer than 15m miles which is about half the distance between the Earth and Mars.

Back in August, NASA released a statement clearly stating that there would be no threat after rumors that a large asteroid would hit Earth went viral.

"There is no scientific basis -- not one shred of evidence -- that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth" on the rumored dates, NASA's Paul Chodas, manager of the Near-Earth Object office, said in August.

This proves rumors wrong when a date for the end of the world circulated around the internet this week. A Christian Group named ebible Fellowship created podcasts where they discussed the possible apocalypse. They immediately tweeted on October 8, 2015 that their prediction was incorrect.

T his is not the first time when the end of the world was predicted. Online conspiracy theorists said that an asteroid would crash into Puerto Rico in September causing catastrophe to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US, Mexico and Southern America.

The chances of being hit by an asteroid are small. There's only a 0.01 percent chance of a potentially hazardous object impacting 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."