WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2015.- A large meteorite dubbed the Great Pumpkin, by its coincidence with the festival of Halloween, reached 17.01 GMT today at its closest point more Earth, when he approached a just a little greater distance of the Moon, and then continue its journey through space.
Is close, very close! (…) It seems a skull rotating. It’s like the giant head of a white bear, “he said astronomer Bob Berman, pointing to the images of stellar rock, technically called 2015 TB145, which broadcast on Internet the Slooh community, associated with the US Space Agency (NASA).
The danger was not even there, is gone. So in less than a minute, 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) 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 dot bright, reflecting the moonlight and was traveling at a high speed.
According to the catalog of NASA on nearby objects Earth, Great Pumpkin has been the subject will happen closer to our planet until August 2027, when it is expected that the rock 1999 AN10 approaching almost 384 000 400 kilometers, the same distance that separates our planet from the moon.
The celestial body was discovered on 10 October for a telescope in Hawaii , United States, and since then calculations have been made to clarify its orbit, although I never was a danger to the Earth.
Scientists NASA warned that the gravitational influence the asteroid would have no detectable effect on the Earth as tides or tectonic plate movements.
Scientists at the US agency began on Friday to use antennas to 34 meters long complex Goldstone, in California to launch against the asteroid radio waves that bounce off the surface and be collected by two NASA centers.
These two centers, located in West Virginia and Puerto Rico , are responsible for collecting the waves and molded images of the rock star, the NASA expected to process with a resolution of up to two meters per pixel in order to offer one of the best images of a meteor seen before.
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