While many celebrated Halloween, the Great Pumpkin meteorite reached the closest point to Earth and could be a night of terror. He approached an only slightly greater than the distance of the moon, according to experts.
In the north emisferio with binoculars was possible to observe for a few seconds.
“It’s close, very close !. 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, is gone. So, in less than a minute,” he said.
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 was the object will pass closer to our planet until August 2027, when it is expected that the rock 1999 AN10 approaches almost 384,400 kilometers, the same distance that separates our planet from the moon. The 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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asteroid passed ‘behind’ the Moon, but at a distance not higher than separates us from it; this is 480,000 kilometers at its closest point to Earth. It moved at a speed of 35 km / s. Considering the type of orbit described, very eccentric, and other features like dust coat, thought it might be an extinct comet.
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