Due to its ghostly skull-like shape and appearance on Halloween in 2015, this dead comet is also known as the “big pumpkin”.
Just on Halloween 3 years ago, scientists as well as astronomy enthusiasts were extremely excited when they discovered a strange skull-shaped comet that flew over the earth at high speed. towards the Moon).
The comet was officially named 2015 TB145 and is known to NASA as “the big pumpkin” – a name that perfectly matches its bizarre shape and the length of time it has left to land.
The first image of the 2015 skull comet TB145 was recorded from the radar at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Scientists believe it is a dead comet, the surface looks like fresh asphalt.
“We found that this star reflects about 6% of the light it receives from the sun,” said Vishnu Reddy, a researcher at the Planetary Science Institute in 2015. “It is brighter than a star. Regular brooms because normally they only reflect 3-5% of sunlight. “
Despite its rather frightening shape and nickname, the 2015 TB145 will not pose any danger to our terrestrial inhabitants. In 2015, the dead-headed comet passed near Earth at a distance of 498,000 km. According to Mother Nature Network, this time, on November 11, it will pass Earth again with a distance closest to 38.6 million km.
