CNN personalities already blame virtually everything on President Trump and now the network has floated a theory that the earth could be jeopardized by an asteroid because of the government shutdown — but don’t worry, experts have already debunked the fake news.
CNN correspondent Tom Foreman said on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” that NASA could potentially stop monitoring asteroids during the shutdown.
“A big one, by the way, is expected to brush by Earth on February 4,” Foreman said on Friday’s show.
Foreman might not be the best when it comes to measuring things, as he said the anticipated asteroid will “brush by earth,” but it will actually be roughly 2.6 million miles away, according to Space.com.
Center for Near-Earth-Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Paul Chodas told the site, which bills itself as “the premier source of space exploration, innovation and astronomy news,” that the asteroid CNN hyped “has no chance -- zero -- of colliding with Earth on Feb. 4 or any time over the next 100 years."
CNN correspondent Tom Foreman said on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” that NASA could potentially stop monitoring asteroids during the shutdown.
“A big one, by the way, is expected to brush by Earth on February 4,” Foreman said on Friday’s show.
Foreman might not be the best when it comes to measuring things, as he said the anticipated asteroid will “brush by earth,” but it will actually be roughly 2.6 million miles away, according to Space.com.
Center for Near-Earth-Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Paul Chodas told the site, which bills itself as “the premier source of space exploration, innovation and astronomy news,” that the asteroid CNN hyped “has no chance -- zero -- of colliding with Earth on Feb. 4 or any time over the next 100 years."
