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A huge space object that should barely touch the Earth Saturday, the day of the Halloween party, is probably a dead comet strangely resembling a head death, according to NASA
Two dark cavities for eyes, a round hole in the nose dug on a whitish shape shaped skull. photo released by NASA is striking.
“The big space rock will pass close to Earth for Halloween is probably a dead comet, which looks suspiciously like, and timely manner, a skull,” wrote NASA in a statement issued later Friday.
“It looks like she has put on a skull costume for his passage (near the Earth) for Halloween,” Kelly enjoys Fast, NASA scientist quoted in the release.
The astronomers first thought it was an asteroid when they detected the object early October and they therefore called Asteroid 2015 TB145.
But after better observed through infrared telescope NASA (FTIR) based in Hawaii, they “determined that it is most probably a dead comet that lost its volatile materials after numerous passages around the sun, “says the space agency.
With a radio telescope with an antenna diameter of 305 meters, located at Arecibo in Puerto Rico, scientists have been able to detect the other images showing his uncanny resemblance to a skull, the symbol of Halloween, the holiday of Halloween.
The space object had already drawn the attention of scientists by its very speed fast and its large size, with about 600 meters in diameter
However, it is not likely to collide with the Earth when will miss Saturday at 1700 GMT. It will remain approximately 486,000 kilometers , or 1.3 times the distance separating Earth from the Moon.
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