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sure NASA, that's what you want us to believe! j/k

Maybe you've seen the headlines on the Web:

Will a giant asteroid hit Earth in September 2015?

Asteroid Impact Apocalypse 2015: Mass Anxiety As Conspiracy Theorists Predict Catastrophe

Meteor Gonna Asteroid that "could end human life" is heading for Earth

Well, NASA says you can relax, the end of the world isn't coming next month (at least not in the form of a giant space rock).

Responding to wild Internet rumors that an asteroid is careening toward Earth and will make impact near Puerto Rico between Sept. 15 and 28, 2015, destroying swaths of North, Central and South America, NASA scientists decided it was time to set the record straight.

"There is no scientific basis -- not one shred of evidence -- that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates," Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement Thursday.

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