Skull shaped asteroid will pass by earth after Día de Muertos

NASA detected the asteroid for the first time in 2015, when it passed less than 500,000 kilometers from Earth. Since then, they have referred to this space rock as a dead comet that, "appropriately, looks a lot like a skull ".

"It has two depressions that could be interpreted as eyes," explains Ruediger Jehn of the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in the German city of Darmstadt. "But there's a lot of imagination involved."

The asteroid, called 2015 TB145, measures 600 meters in diameter, with two craters 100 meters wide each. It is not a threat to Earth.

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