Skull Asteroid Coming Back November 2018

how cool is this thing?



artist rendering:

An asteroid that bears a striking resemblance to a skull is set to pass Earth again next year, having last done so on Halloween in 2015.

Called 2015 TB145, the asteroid is about 625 to 700 meters (2,050-2,300 feet) across, and rotates once every three hours. It swung past our planet on October 31, 2015, at a distance of 486,000 kilometers (302,000 miles), having been spotted three weeks earlier. That’s just 1.3 times the distance of the Moon.

And in November 2018, the asteroid should pass relatively near our planet again. This time around it’ll be quite distant, about 105 times further than the Moon, but close enough to study. The next time the object comes really close will be in 2088, when it will pass about 20 times further than the Moon.

Bizarre Skull Asteroid Will Return To Earth In 2018

a reply to: fiverx313

It will probably harbour some stranded space pirates..

Cool if it's made by nature itself and as long as it stays away from Earth only to observe.

I see its big enough to be a next level extinction skull asteroid

I think it should be called Homopithicus Astrofaroutsis.

a reply to: fiverx313

Looks like those Paracas culture skulls.

How ironic would it be for mankind to wiped out by a Asteroid shaped like a human skull...


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If it crashes into the atmosphere it would become a "flaming skull of death"!!

That would be cool. Huh-huh.

If we make it past all the other doomporn dates next year and rumors of nuclear annihilation then I vote for Flaming Skull of Death!

Someones yanking our CGI chain.

Where see skulls, I see no skulls

a reply to: fiverx313

It was the perfect Halloween gift from the Universe in 2015 , sadly it will miss Halloween next year.

Never heard of this and it passed by on Halloween 2015? That's quite mad really.. A skull shaped asteroid passes by on Halloween..

originally posted by: intrptr

Someones yanking our CGI chain.

Where see skulls, I see no skulls

Use the pareidolia, Luke.

originally posted by: butcherguy

originally posted by: intrptr

Someones yanking our CGI chain.

Where see skulls, I see no skulls

Use the pareidolia, Luke.

I did. I saw thru the CGI.

a reply to: intrptr

It isn't CGI it's a radar image.

originally posted by: butcherguy
I think it should be called Homopithicus Astrofaroutsis.

Catchy. It gets my vote.

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: intrptr

It isn't CGI it's a radar image.

I showed the radar images^^^, they don't look anything like the image in the OP.

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: intrptr

It isn't CGI it's a radar image.

I showed the radar images^^^, they don't look anything like the image in the OP.

it looked to me like the images you showed were 90 degrees offset from the one in the OP... like a 'side' view instead of a front, if you will. the pareidolia definitely doesn't hold up as well from that angle.

still cool, tho

ETA: this article credits the OP image as a radar image from an observatory in Puerto Rico, released by NASA

www.space.com...

a reply to: fiverx313

Yah, okay except Space.com is not NASA.

It's 'Knowhere" from the Marvel Universe come to life.

a reply to: intrptr

www.jpl.nasa.gov...

happy now?

ETA: here, this one has a gif that shows rotation from skull-like appearance to less skull-like appearance...

www.nasa.gov...

originally posted by: 0bserver1
a reply to: fiverx313

It will probably harbour some stranded space pirates..

Cool if it's made by nature itself and as long as it stays away from Earth only to observe.

I see its big enough to be a next level extinction skull asteroid

Nah, it's just the worn, tattered remains of the Eternals' Zardoz head coming back for the harvest.

a reply to: intrptr

That's the right side ,you see its growing a nose. .