The images portrayed a bright and fast space rock. NASA F
“It’s close, very close (…) seems a skull rotating It’s like!. the giant head of a white bear, “said astronomer Bob Berman, pointing to the images of the rock star, technically called 2015 TB145, which relayed the Internet community” Slooh “associated with the US Space Agency (NASA).
“The danger was not even there, is gone. So within a few minutes,” said the astronomer.
The images broadcast live by the community “Slooh “portrayed a bright and fast space rock, the size of four football fields (400 meters diameter) that moved at a speed of 490,000 kilometers, which is a speed 29 times that of a rifle bullet.
Who could be done with a small telescope could see a small bright spot, reflecting the moonlight and was traveling at a high speed.
According to the catalog of the NASA on near-Earth objects, “Great Pumpkin” has been the object will happen closer to our planet until August 2027, when it is expected that the rock 1999 AN10 approaching almost 384,400 kilometers, the same distance that separates our planet Moon.
The celestial body was discovered last October 10 by a telescope in Hawaii (USA) and since then there have been calculations to determine their orbit, but never was a danger to Earth.
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