“‘战神’小行星已经渐行渐远了，不会撞上地球，也不是世界末日的预兆。”中国科学院紫金山天文台研究员季江徽19日在接受中新社记者采访时，对传说中即将到来的“世界末日”和传言中的“末日先行者”——“战神”小行星，做出如此解释。
Nanjing (CNS) -- Asteroid Toutatis will definitely not crash into Earth and the "doomsday" rumor is ridiculous, an astronomer said during an interview Wednesday.
Ji Jianghui, an astronomer at the Purple Mountain Observatory (Chinese Academy of Sciences), said asteroid Toutatis got "close" to Earth on December 12, 2012, passing within 6.9 million kilometers, but is now moving away.
Its closest approach occurred in 2004, but it was still 1.5 million kilometers from us, Ji said. Although Toutatis gets relatively close to Earth every four years, the odds of a collision are very slim in the next 200 years.
Toutatis is irrelevant to the rumor, said Ji, who added that "doomsday" will never occur.
He also denied rumors that there would be three consecutive days of darkness after December 21.
“‘战神’小行星已经渐行渐远了，不会撞上地球，也不是世界末日的预兆。”中国科学院紫金山天文台研究员季江徽19日在接受中新社记者采访时，对传说中即将到来的“世界末日”和传言中的“末日先行者”——“战神”小行星，做出如此解释。
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