Big asteroid hoax going around now

[vger]

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1137095

This is already trending on Yahoo.

It's about an asteroid that will hit the earth on... March 35th.

[Whirligig Girl]

Really? March 35th?

[vger]

Really? March 35th?

Yep. In other words, it can never happen.

Not surprisingly though, its already causing a lot of buzz.

[Godot]

LOL

Time to found a company which sells Asteroid Survival packages to gullible people who cannot read dates

[Dodgey]

I've got an idea. We all pretend that it isn't a hoax and maybe just maybe Congress will fall for it and boost NASAs budget. Who's with me?

[mythic_fci]

I've got an idea. We all pretend that it isn't a hoax and maybe just maybe Congress will fall for it and boost NASAs budget. Who's with me?

Meeeee!!!!!!!1111!!!

[astropapi1]

Just look at the tags in that CNN iReport article...

[Specialist290]

Just look at the tags in that CNN iReport article...

Indeed. I strongly suspect the iCNN submitter isn't really expecting anyone to take this seriously

[andrew8098]

somehow it wound up on yahoo news now... not that i think theyve had a real person deciding what to put on yahoo news for years now, im pretty sure its just a program that posts articles with lots of viewers.

the problem is that between it being on yahoo and having a CNN logo and a CNN.com web address is a billion idiots might take it serious.

[Streetwind]

Aww, it already got flagged and removed, now I can't see the lulz

[Omicron314]

But the note:

CNN PRODUCER NOTE - NASA has confirmed via email that this story is false. A spokeswoman for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that the largest object detected by NEOWISE measures 3 km in diameter and poses no risk to Earth. The iReport has been removed.

. . . NASA had to step in to say that no, there will not be a planet-threatening collision with an asteroid on the 35th of March several decades from now.

The media never fails to disappoint.