The NASA orbit monitors space rock that has been nicknamed “Great Pumpkin”. F: File
The asteroid, dubbed 2015 TB145, will pass about 490,000 kilometers from Earth, equivalent to 1.3 Sometimes there until the Moon, and be visible with small telescopes.
The TB145 has a diameter of about 400 meters and will pass near Earth orbit about 126,000 kilometers per hour without posing a threat for the planet.
“The path of 2015 TB145 is well understood,” he said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near Earth Objects Laboratory NASA JPL in Pasadena (California).
“The gravitational influence of the asteroid is so small you will not have detectable effects on the Moon or tides or tectonic plates of the Earth,” said the US space agency said in a statement.
asteroid was discovered last October 10 by a telescope in Hawaii (USA) and since then there have been calculations to pinpoint its orbit.
The NASA has said the passage of the asteroid near the Earth is more than a threat, an opportunity to investigate this type of space bodies.
The radio antennas Goldstone complex in California, will be reoriented to monitor and study over TB145, which is moving at an unusually high speed, according to NASA.
The observatory hopes to process images with a resolution of up to two meters per pixel. EFE
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