Most probably this must have started with a recent newsitem.... See below.
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This week, a "gigantic" asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is speeding "towards Earth."
At least that's how it's reported by Sputnik, the news site funded by the Russian government. The reality, as the article states after the scary headline, is that asteroid 2019 UO will pass us safely on Jan. 10 at a distance of 2,808,194 miles (4,519,351 kilometers). That's almost 12 times farther away than the moon. I scarcely think of the moon as speeding toward my house every night, let alone something 12 times more distant.
But this is the type of language you find every week in certain outlets that really love scary asteroid stories.
The misleading headlines and stories take advantage of the words scientists use to talk about space objects and the connotations some of those same words have in everyday language.
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කියලා නෙට් එකේ දාලා තියෙනවා කියලා
සමහරු කියනවා මුහුදට වැටුනොත් සුනාමියක් එනවලු සවුදියේ ඉන්න ශි ලාංකිකයෙක් කියනවලු ඇමරිකාවේ සහාය දුන්නොත් එන එක වලක්වන්න පුළුවන් කියලා 
