Culiacan (Notimex) .- The 2015 TB145 asteroid will pass close to Earth on Saturday, a distance slightly greater than that between the Earth and the Moon, said Tatiana Kokina Yurova, a researcher at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS).
The head of the Center for Astronomy of the UAS said that the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, but the National Administration of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is monitoring its orbit because it moves at a speed of 126,000 kilometers per hour.
With a diameter of about 400 meters, 2015 TB145 will pass about 490,000 kilometers from Earth, equivalent to 1.3 times the distance to the moon, and it will take at least a small telescope to view it.
“The gravitational influence of the asteroid is so small you will not have detectable effects on the Moon, or tectonic plates of the Earth tides” said the researcher from the School of Earth Sciences and Space (facite) of the UAS.
The asteroid was discovered on October 10 by a telescope in Hawaii and since then there have been calculations pinpoint its orbit.
Tatiana Kokina Yurova noted that over TB145, rather than a threat, an opportunity to investigate this type of space bodies, since it is the largest asteroid ever found in past 30 years.
He stressed that radioantenas complex Goldstone, in California, will be reoriented to monitor and study over TB145.
He noted that the asteroid is moving at a speed unusually high, according to NASA.
Dead comet That will safely zip by Earth on 31 October looks like a skull eerie: https://t.co/8bq4UBrFO9 #HappyHalloween pic.twitter.com/gICZTSLcZr - NASA (NASA) October 30, 2015
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