SPACE — On October 31 2015, an asteroid shaped like a human skull flew past Earth. It passed just in time for Halloween, which makes the spooky asteroid even scarier.
During its closest approach to Earth, it was about 300,000 miles from Earth or 1.3 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. So, it does not pose any threat to our planet.
It was discovered by astronomers at Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS observatory just three weeks before the flyby. The stone skull was given the official name TB145 2015.
But no one knew what it would look like until the day before Halloween, when the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico captured the first radar image. NASA calls the asteroid the Great Pumpkin, while others call it the Halloween Asteroid. Source: Space.com
2023-10-31 13:58:00
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