The Earth is approaching asteroid with unusual shapes

Coincidence?

In November of 2018 to the Earth close asteroid 2015 TB-145, resembling a skull.

The unusual surface of the asteroid reflects only about six percent of the sunlight, so it is dark. The size of a celestial body ranges from 625 to 700 meters, the period of rotation is about three hours.

“It is very dark,with a reflectance slightly greater than that of coal,” — said the scientist from the Institute of astrophysics of Andalusia, Pablo Santos-Sanz.

Celestial body unusual shape will approach our planet in November. This is not the first case when it flies past Earth.

The last time the asteroid passed by our planet in 2015 on the night of 31 October — so the astronomers have named it “Halloween”.

The previous convergence of the asteroid with the Earth was pretty close in astronomical terms: the distance was 1.3 distance from our planet to the moon, reported in the scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. It is expected that in 2018 he will fly past Earth at a greater distance than last time.

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According to scientists, following the rapprochement of asteroid 2015 TB-145 with our planet will only happen in 2088 year.

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