Astroblog: Yet Another Asteroid Hoax (There will be no Meteor Hitting Mexico this Month)

Monday, March 18, 2013

Yet Another Asteroid Hoax (There will be no Meteor Hitting Mexico this Month)

There is currently a story circulating, allegedly from a Professor Herbert Raymond Brown, that a 300 meter diameter asteroid called DA2013cl2 will impact the Atlantic Ocean (or Canada or Mexico) on 25 March. This impact will allegedly kill millions first off, then exterminate the rest of humanity later on.

This is a hoax. There are a number of ways you can tell it is a hoax.

1) The story is illustrated with a picture of comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS, not an asteroid.
2) It does not have a real asteroid name, asteroids that do not have proper names (like 4 Vesta), are named year, alphabetical identifier, numerical identifier (eg 2012 DA14). There's a 2013 CL2, but that comes nowhere near us, there's a 2013 CL22, which has a 1/10,000,000 chance of hitting us in 2064, but nothing that fits the hoax description.
3) A 300 meter asteroid impact would be serious, with an impact energy of 1110 Mt or TNT, creating a crater 4.6 Km in diameter, but it's no civilisation killer. The Creataceous/Tertiary impactor that did in the dinosaurs (at least in part) was around 10 Km in diameter.
4) Outside of the various posts promulgating this story, there is no astronomy Professor Herbert Raymond Brown
5) There is no high risk asteroid of any sort in the asteroid hazard lists.

Labels: asteroids, Hoax, Pseudoscience

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 3:31 pm

Comments:

pleas also add this
http://godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2167514/pg1
Sometime in the afternoon on march 25 2013 a 300 meter asteroid will impact the earth.

Well not really the earth but the atlantic ocean.

It will cause a wave that will wipe out all coast lines of the atlantic ocean.

Millions of unknowing citizens will die without warning.

This is the only warning that you shall receive .

Good luck and godspeed to those who live in these areas.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2162919/pg1
He said it's time to bug out if you live within 200 miles of a coast. The earth is going to be a shooting gallery in the coming weeks. He said impacts are coming from meteors and comet have and will destabilize the asteroid belt sending them our way. We will see many more events like the russian one.

He wanted me to let those who would listen to know. He said after the whole Russian debacle they, private and public agencies, began intently viewing the skies and found via space Tracking and Surveillance Systems many meteors heading this way. He said they have a high probability of impacting and the percentages have been increasing weekly.

Sorry for the bad news, I really don't know what I'm going to do? Prepare yourselves.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:53 pm

That's really all that needs to be said.

# posted by

David Hunter : 9:33 pm

For some reason, my previous comment didn't include the 'facepalm' that I wrote at the beginning of it. Hopefully it appears in this comment.

# posted by

David Hunter : 9:34 pm

"Facepalm" is right.

# posted by

Ian Musgrave : 11:27 pm

This all sounds very much like a novel I just read called "THE MYOSHI EFFECT" which is about what happens when a giant asteroid hurtles toward earth, and how they try to destroy it. "THE MYOSHI EFFECT" is a black humor but very factual. Weird how fiction imitates life.

# posted by

Unknown : 12:44 am

You do not know if its fake actualy all the current info corroberates correctly including the guys name and NO ONE HAS GIVEN THE ASTEROID A NAME OR CLASSIFICATION YET THIS COULD BE REAL AND WE WILL FIND OUT IN 3 OR 4 DAYS FROM NOW TO BAD FOR THIS BLOGGER IF IT IS REAL AND HE IS TELLING BILLIONS ITS A HOAX MATE THERE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:02 pm

Google "Ray Brown astronomer"...

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:23 pm

1) DA2013cl2 is a name.
2) Ray Brown is a science writer, not the alleged Professor Herbert Raymond Brown

# posted by

Ian Musgrave : 4:10 pm

well thats sucks..would have solved alot of our immigration problems if it would have hit!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:48 pm

I ask my self why a meteor can't hit the USA? A whiped out fashistic state would really help the rest of the world to live free and without fear. God please strike the satanistic USA.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:25 am

Wtf is up with this guy

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:56 pm

I do not call for the destruction of usa or anything of sort, but the usa has more blood on its hand over the past 22 yrs than any other country in the world. I am a veteran and am behind the people of this country, but a majority of them are misinformed if they trust typical media. We have become an empire with over 6000 bases overseas. As history has demonstrated, we cannot support this much longer. We are behind the fall of libya, eygpt and other and in process of Syria. Wake up people. Do you think rebels could take Syria and come this far without help from a major power to provide weapons and intelligence? If one researches whom we are putting in power in these places, you will find its the Muslim Brotherhood. We are putting governments in power whom are worse than the regimes in power or whom were in power. Our plan is to destabilize the middle east to give us an excuse. Its probable there will be a disaster in Israel and it will be a false flag event. We are not a democracy nor are we fighting for democracy. If anyone disputes this without doing research for more than a few months, the puzzle will come together. Did you know libya was setting up its own gold standard? Eygpt, Syria, Libya, Iran and Iraq are or were, as applicable, the last major countries which their banking systems were not controlled by the same people whom control are federal reserve? Hmm... If som3one killed your family with a drone, what would you do? If an army invaded our country, what would you think? What would think if a country made your water radioactive and other and death and disease, birth defects was all around you for many years to come, due to depleted uranium. The facts are in Bosnia, Iraq and other. Did you know the you know the UN on many occasions voted down studies and research on these issues in these countries? Why? I do admit that sometimes one has to fall hard to Wake up to humanity.

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:02 pm

If your family was hungry and you couldnt feed them, what would u do? Maybe cross a man made to work. Ignorance is bliss

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:06 pm