NASA has published on its official website radar image of asteroid 2015 TB145, which is as close to Earth at 21:00 Moscow time on October 31st. In one of the outer body angles clearly resembles a skull.
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It is interesting that on the same day in the West celebrated Halloween – Halloween, when, according to legend, comes out of hiding every evil. It is possible that NASA employees in this regard carefully picking the “right” view of the asteroid. In addition, it gives the sinister outlines blurred image, its resolution – 7.5 meters per pixel.
In fact, is it a dead comet, which “lost” his tail as a result of repeated passage near the Sun. An asteroid the size of about 600 meters in diameter will pass by Earth at a distance of 486,000 kilometers – a 1.3 distance from our planet to the moon.
The first radar images of dead comets were obtained by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A cosmic body discovered October 10 powerful telescope, set in Hawaii.
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