NASA has responded to viral claims that Earth will briefly lose gravity on Wednesday, an idea tied to a supposedly leaked document called "Project Anchor." The agency says gravity is determined by Earth's mass and would only change if the planet actually lost mass.
Fact-checkers at Snopes traced the claim to social media posts alleging a leaked NASA memo describing an $89 billion program, a seven-second "gravitational anomaly," and predictions of tens of millions of deaths, none of which Snopes found any credible evidence for.
NASA noted the date does have real astronomical significance: a total solar eclipse crossing Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain and Portugal, plus the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, neither of which affects Earth's total gravity.
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