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  • Skull-shaped asteroid RETURN: Massive space rock to fly by earth again this fall...

    08/27/2018 8:16:21 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 17 replies
    strangesounds.org ^ | 08/14/2018
    Earth is set for another spooky encounter with a 700 metre asteroid that looks uncannily like a skull. The space rock first passed ‘close’ to our planet at 78,000mph (125,500km/h) at a distance of 310,000 miles (499,000km) on October 31, 2015, just in time for Halloween. Now, it’s set to make a return in November 2018. This fall, the space rock, known as 2015 TB145, will flyby at a less dramatic distance than the last one. The asteroid will zoom past the planet at about 105 Earth-moon distances, compared to just under 1.3 lunar distances last time around. Astronomers analysing...