'Blood Moon' to Signal End Times? Here's What NASA Says

A supermoon that also happens to figure in a lunar eclipse, resulting in a reddish-hued moon, has certain entities declaring apocalypse is near.

Are such declarations valid warnings or prophecies?

Fortunately, we have the likes of NASA to dispel such ominous declarations with scientific explanations.

"As noted earlier, no human in the past 1000 years is known to have been killed by a meteorite or by the effects of one impacting," the organization said in a post. "An individual's chance of being killed by a meteorite is small, but the risk increases with the size of the impacting comet or asteroid, with the greatest risk associated with global catastrophes resulting from impacts of objects larger than 1 kilometer."

"NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small," it explained further. "In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years."

Although the fact that the recent blood moon is part of a series of lunar eclipses called a tetrad - an uncommon event in itself - it has happened a number of times already in the 21^st century. There have been eight tetrad eclipses so far, which is an interesting fact considering there was none from 1400 to 1900.

So, do the tetrads indeed herald the end times?

This speculation was sparked after some individuals have observed that the the recent tetrad coincidentally fell on a Jewish holiday.

"Some Christian ministers have theorized that the sequence has earth-shaking significance, noting that other tetrads took place in key years in history, including 1492 (Jewish expulsion from Spain) and 1948 (a Mideast war)," CNN said.

"The tetrad of 1949-50 occurred just after the founding of Israel. The tetrad of 1967-1968 occurred as the Six-Day War was fought in Jerusalem," The Guardian added.

Further, Endtime Ministries' Irvin Baxter believed the recent tetrad may herald a peace agreement between Palestine and Israel.

However, such observations should be taken with a healthy dose of caution as the coincidences with Jewish holidays is said to be "logical" because "the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar."

"Some tetrads' occurrence in significant historical years is an example of confirmation bias: looking for connections that fit preconceived notions," CNN noted.

"People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years in recorded history, and not a single time has that come about," Adler Planetarium's Mark Hammergren pointed out.

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