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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