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Dead comet with "skull face" passing by Earth today (Halloween)
Posted on 10/31/15 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 10/31/15 at 12:48 pm
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Miami (AFP) - A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween looks like a dead comet with a skull face, NASA said after gaining a closer look at the spooky space object.
Astronomers initially thought the object was an asteroid when they spotted it in early October, and named it Asteroid 2015 TB145.
But using the US space agency's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, experts "have determined that the celestial object is more than likely a dead comet that has shed its volatiles after numerous passes around the sun," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement late Friday.
Scientists have also spotted an eerie skull-like resemblance on the face of the rock, based on radar data from the National Science Foundation's 305-meter (1,000-foot) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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There is no danger of it hitting Earth, however.
When it zips by Saturday at 1 pm (1700 GMT), it will do so at a distance of 302,000 miles (486,000 kilometers).
That's about 1.3 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Posted on 10/31/15 at 12:50 pm to mizzoukills
quote:well we don't give a shite
There is no danger of it hitting Earth, however.
Posted on 10/31/15 at 12:51 pm to mizzoukills
looks like this thing is flying by right about now...
Posted on 10/31/15 at 12:52 pm to mizzoukills
Skull Rock flies by earth. End Times fuh sho.
Posted on 10/31/15 at 12:54 pm to Spankum
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looks like this thing is flying by right about now...
First, the Super Blood Moon.
Then, a skull shaped apocalypse space rock flies by Earth on Halloween (of all days).
End times are coming. Prep.
Posted on 10/31/15 at 1:03 pm to mizzoukills
It's a fireball some cosmic dark lord threw and missed with, during a battle.
Posted on 10/31/15 at 1:36 pm to mizzoukills
Dead comet? Are some comets alive?
Posted on 10/31/15 at 1:50 pm to mizzoukills
Hypothetically, what if something that big hit the moon instead, how much would our environment on earth change?
Posted on 10/31/15 at 1:52 pm to eddieray
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Hypothetically, what if something that big hit the moon instead, how much would our environment on earth change?
dunno about the effects, but it would be damn cool to watch...
Posted on 10/31/15 at 1:54 pm to Spankum
There would be effects.
If something as big as our moon passed between us and the moon..and depending on speed.
The moon already effects how things on earth work.
If something as big as our moon passed between us and the moon..and depending on speed.
The moon already effects how things on earth work.
Posted on 10/31/15 at 1:57 pm to eddieray
As the moon influences our ocean tides, the effect could be significant.
Posted on 10/31/15 at 1:59 pm to SEClint
Let's get crackpot here: what if this dead comet got trapped in Earth's gravitational pull and became a second moon, a skull moon?
Posted on 10/31/15 at 2:16 pm to PsychTiger
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what if this dead comet got trapped in Earth's gravitational pull and became a second moon, a skull moon?
I'd dig it.
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