Puebla, Puebla .- On October 31 the asteroid 2015 TB145 pass at a distance of about 525,000 kilometers of our planet, equivalent to 1.3 times the average distance of Earth to the moon, so INAOE tuned instruments to observe it.
If the weather permits, will be closely monitored by a team of astrophysicists INAOE located in Tonantzintla, Puebla, said researcher Jose Ramon Valdes.
The researcher INAOE, he said the size of this asteroid has been estimated between 280 and 620 meters and is the closer of a large asteroid from July 3, 2006, when the asteroid 2004 XP14 spent 1.1 times the distance Moon.
He noted that the number of asteroids small, less than one hundred meters, is much higher, hence the scientific importance and from the point of view of security of the planet, have search systems and monitoring of asteroids, particularly those known as Near Earth Objects and even more so-called potentially hazardous asteroids.
asteroid 2015 TB145 was discovered barely 10 October by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope, operated by the Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii, one of the systems in the world dedicated to the search for new asteroids.
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