Due to its ghostly skull-shaped shape that appeared on Halloween in 2015, this meteorite 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 meteorite that flew over the Earth at high speed at around 125,500 km / h (equivalent at 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the Moon).
This meteorite is officially named 2015 TB145 and has been referred to by NASA with another name as “the great pumpkin” – a name that perfectly matches its bizarre shape as well as the time it passed through Earth.
The first image of the 2015 TB145 cranial meteorite was recorded from the radar at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Scientists believe it is a meteorite whose surface looks like fresh asphalt.
Despite its rather frightening shape and nickname, the 2015 TB145 will not pose any danger to our terrestrial inhabitants. In 2015, the skull meteorite flew over the earth with the closest 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.
