Huge asteroid to fly past Earth

Huge asteroid to fly past Earth

A skull-shaped asteroid which flew close to Earth three years ago is expected to make a return just after Halloween, Independent reports.

Nicknamed The Great Pumpkin by officials at Nasa, asteroid 2015 TB145 will pass 24 million miles from our planet on 11 November, the agency said.

While that may sound a long way away, in space terms it’s a relatively close brush: about a quarter of the distance between the earth and sun. 

Around 600 metres in diameter, it last passed this close on 31 October 2015, when it came within of 300,000 miles of Earth.

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