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The asteroid reaches the earth on Halloween
No kidding: A newly discovered asteroid races at an exceptionally high speed towards Earth and will come pretty close to us on October 31 ...
For decades, little Linus of the Peanuts has been waiting for the arrival of the "Big Pumpkin" every year on Halloween. 2015 is finally here!
As Nasa announced now, just two weeks ago, on October 10, an approximately 400-meter-long, asteroid approaching asteroid was discovered. According to calculations, he will be closest to us on the 31st of October, reaching us by 480, 000 kilometers.
480, 000 kilometers sounds a lot? "That's 1.3 times the distance to the moon, " said Paul Chodas of the Center for Near-Earth Investigations in a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
And he adds: "Although this is quite dense by cosmic standards, it is expected to remain fairly faint, so that sky-gazers on Earth need at least a small telescope to see it." What a shame...
Although the asteroid carries the catalog number "2015 TB145" until now, it is jokingly called in the media "Big Pumpkin". Finally, Linus gets his dream fulfilled by the Peanuts!
