An unusually fast 320 meter asteroid will buzz Earth on October 31 at 10:12 a.m. PDT, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced.
Discovered just 10 days ago, asteroid 2015 TB145 will safely pass Earth within roughly 490,000 km (304,471 miles, 1.3 Lunar distances or 0.00326 au) at a velocity of 35 km/s.
“The asteroid is in an extremely eccentric (~0.86) and high inclination (~40 deg) orbit,” NASA states. “It has a Tisserand parameter of 2.937 hinting that it may be cometary in nature.”
The stadium-sized asteroid poses no threat to Earth. Near Earth Objects (NEO) often frequent the planet’s immediate neighbourhood, with more than 30 NEOs scheduled to approach by the end of the month, five of those within 4.9 million km.
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Discovered just 10 days ago, asteroid 2015 TB145 will safely pass Earth within roughly 490,000 km (304,471 miles, 1.3 Lunar distances or 0.00326 au) at a velocity of 35 km/s.
“The asteroid is in an extremely eccentric (~0.86) and high inclination (~40 deg) orbit,” NASA states. “It has a Tisserand parameter of 2.937 hinting that it may be cometary in nature.”
The stadium-sized asteroid poses no threat to Earth. Near Earth Objects (NEO) often frequent the planet’s immediate neighbourhood, with more than 30 NEOs scheduled to approach by the end of the month, five of those within 4.9 million km.
Continue reading…
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