A meteorite dubbed the Great Pumpkin, for its agreement with Halloween, yesterday reached its closest point to Earth, when he approached an only slightly greater than the distance of the Moon.
“it is close, very close! (…). It seems a skull rotating. It’s like the giant head of a white bear, “said astronomer Bob Berman, pointing to the images of stellar rock, called 2015 TB145, which broadcast online the Slooh community, associated with NASA.” The danger was not even there because it is gone. Thus, in less than a minute, “he added.
The images broadcast live by the Slooh community portrayed a bright and fast rock, the size of four football fields (400 meters) . According to the catalog of the NASA Near Earth Objects, Great Pumpkin has been the object will pass closer to our planet until August 2027, when it is expected that the rock 1999 AN10 approaching almost 384,400 kilometers, the same distance between our planet Luna.El celestial body was discovered on October 10 by a telescope in Hawaii, USA, and since then there have been calculations to pinpoint its orbit.
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