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[ScienceD] Halloween skies to include dead comet flyby - Science Daily - 2015-10-31
Halloween skies to include dead comet flyby
The large space rock that will zip past Earth this Halloween is most likely a dead comet that, fittingly, bears an eerie resemblance to a skull. Scientists observing asteroid 2015 TB145 with NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have determined that the celestial object is more than likely a dead comet that has shed its volatiles after numerous passes around the sun.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151030190051.htm