I am really tired being fed nonsense news from “NASA” by the U.K. rag Daily Star about asteroids set to “collide with Earth’s orbit” or “asteroids crashing into earth’s orbit.”
I get links like this every few days. Here are two separate links to that effect:
Fake Asteroid Link 1 and Fake Asteroid Link 2.
It appears there is somebody who works at the Daily Star who specializes in fabricating pictures of earth from space with fiery balls or huge rocks heading for earth.
Note also that the headlines are “technically correct” since the asteroids never actually crash into earth, just into earth’s orbit. Earth’s orbit is a huge imaginary circle around the sun with an approximate length of 940 million kilometers. At any given time, the earth is only at one point along that giant circle. So yes, every day, lots of asteroids come close to that circle somewhere in space. That point in space can be on the other side of the sun, about 300 million kilometers away. It’ll take us 6 months to get there.
I don’t think I’d call it “crashing” when a space rock crosses over an imaginary line somewhere in space. Obviously, this fluff in the Daily Star is silly click bait and I don’t understand what causes it to show up so frequently in my social media feeds.
It’s another effort to dumb us down.