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forget the great pumpkin, Charlie brown...bigger things cometh...bwhahahahahahahah


NASA predict huge asteroid will just miss Earth as it zips past this Halloween

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/nasa-predict-huge-asteroid-will-just-miss-earth-as-it-zips-past-this-halloween/story-fnjwlcze-1227576198946

October 21, 20156:00am
MATTHEW DUNN
news.com.au


?THIS Halloween just got a whole lot scarier with the discovery of a huge asteroid hurtling towards Earth.

The space rock, dubbed 2015 TB145, was only discovered less than a fortnight ago by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii.

"The asteroid is on an extremely eccentric and high inclination orbit," explained NASA.

With the asteroid expected to come within the 7,500,000km threshold of proximity to Earth, it has been classified as a potentially hazardous object.

Although NASA is confident the asteroid will fly past our planet some 499,000km away, while cruising at speeds over 126,000km per hour.

Despite missing Earth, experts monitoring the space debris estimate the fly-by will be the closest an asteroid has come to our home planet in close to a decade.

They also expect it will be another 12 years before we experience something similar.

"This is the closest approach by a known object this large until 1999 AN10 approaches within 1 lunar distance in August 2027," said NASA.

Despite being estimated to be somewhere between 280 to 260 metres in diameter, space fans will still need a telescope to grab a glimpse of the giant rock as it passes Earth.




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Asteroids

Fright night flyby: Skyscraper-sized asteroid will pass Earth on Halloween

Published October 20, 2015
· FoxNews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/10/20/fright-night-flyby-skyscraper-sized-asteroid-will-pass-earth-on-halloween.html


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EarthSky // Human World, Science Wire, Space Release Date: Oct 19, 2015

Big asteroid will safely pass Earth on Halloween

NASA says 2015 TB145 is the biggest known asteroid to sweep near Earth until 2027. It'll pass at 1.3 times the moon's distance and be visible through telescopes!
https://earthsky.org/space/big-asteroid-will-safely-pass-earth-on-halloween-october-31-2015

Halloween asteroid  + space junk falling  + thee planets  OH MY



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEWmQ4iDQ9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEWmQ4iDQ9w



http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/





china + Russia + middle east  OH MY

then add the U.S.


holy crap    I is runnin for my cave

(http://cdn.attackofthecute.com/July-12-2012-16-05-21-wert.jpg)

NASA SAYS:  1,300-foot-wide (400-meter)

(http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/2015tb145a_s.jpg)

NASA Spots the 'Great Pumpkin': Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers

October 21, 2015
NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California. The asteroid will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the moon's orbit on Oct. 31 at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT). Scientists are treating the flyby of the estimated 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity, allowing instruments on "spacecraft Earth" to scan it during the close pass.

Asteroid 2015 TB145 was discovered on Oct. 10, 2015, by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS-1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakala, Maui, part of the NASA-funded Near-Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program. According to the catalog of near-Earth objects (NEOs) kept by the Minor Planet Center, this is the closest currently known approach by an object this large until asteroid 1999 AN10, at about 2,600 feet (800 meters) in size, approached at about 1 lunar distance (238,000 miles from Earth) in August 2027.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news190.html

ok now they are saying it is skull shaped..really. ! .  ? ? ?could this be a Halloween prank ? ?  ?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/skull-shaped-asteroid-will-fly-past-earth-on-halloween/ar-BBmEhE3?li=BBgzzfc
Houston Chronicle
John Boyd, Houston Chronicle
14 hrs ago





© Hearst Newspapers This image of asteroid 2015 TB145, a dead comet, was generated using radar data collected by the National Science Foundation's 1,000-foot (305-meter) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The radar image was taken on Oct...





As if Halloween needed to be any scarier, a giant skull is flying through space toward Earth.

"The (Infrared Telescope Facility) data may indicate that the object might be a dead comet, but in the Arecibo images it appears to have donned a skull costume for its Halloween flyby," said Kelly Fast, IRTF program scientist at NASA Headquarters.

Earth is in no real danger, though; NASA projects the object - officially "asteroid TB145" - will pass by Earth from about 302,000 miles away at about noon CST on Halloween.

Still, for Halloween drama it's hard to beat a giant space skull.

The object was first spotted Oct. 10 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS-1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakala, Maui. It's next Earth flyby will come in September 2018, although at a much farther distance: about 24 million miles.

I am beginning to think that NO NEWS is real anymore...

Since we don't have our own telescope etc  we have to take their word for it

The Flat Earthers are winning :P Because I cannot use a NASA picture of a round earth as proof when I know NASA bullshits so much. How do you say "The Apollo stuff is a hoax and the Skull Comet is a joke... but THIS picture of Pluto is the real deal!"  ???

:o

Very Bright Fireball Over Europe Last Night.

Interesting Photo of a meteor seen on Halloween..
(need to scroll photo to the right to see it)


(http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/31/halloween_fireball_2015.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg)

Last night (Halloween, Oct. 31, 2015) at around 19:00 local time, a smallish bit of cosmic debris entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up over central Europe. It was very bright, and because it happened in the early evening, a lot of people saw it. Twitter was lit up with reports.

It was seen from south Sweden, Germany, Poland, and as far east as Belarus! Impressive.

As you can see, it gets bright very rapidly, leaves a nice glowing train (the technical term for the trail of glowing debris), and then you see the still-hot solid meteoroid fall away. This is typical behavior for meteors. The solid part (called the meteoroid) is moving so rapidly — usually more a few dozen kilometers per second — it rams the air in front of it violently. A compressed gas heats up, and the shocked air can reach several thousand degrees. This heats the meteoroid up, causing it to glow.

The rush of air past it blows the melted material off (this is called ablation), and that leaves the glowing train. The meteoroid decelerates viciously, falls below the speed where it heats the air up, and then begins its long fall to the ground (assuming it's big enough to reach the ground). It may glow for a few more seconds, but at 40 – 80 km high the air is quite cold, and it cools rapidly. It may break apart, raining meteorites down over some area, or big chunks might hit as well. That last part's rare, though. Unlike movies, where they show small pieces hitting at high speed, the meteoroid(s) slows to terminal velocity, usually a couple of hundred kilometers per hour (or much slower for smaller pieces), for the rest of the trip down.

This video missed the first second or two of the European event, but you can see the sky light up blue-green from it:

A lot of folks say it looked green to them, which means it may have been metallic; nickel glows green when heated to incandescence, and metallic meteoroids are generally mostly iron with several percent nickel. Magnesium can be blue-green as well, and that's common in stony meteorites too.

On Twitter, I got a lot of people questioning if this was related to 2015 TB145, the 600-meter asteroid/dead comet that passed Earth yesterday. Almost certainly not; the direction it was moving doesn't line up, and the difference in time makes it unlikely as well (remember, these things are moving at 20 – 40 kps, and TB145 passed us many hours earlier; they were separated by hundreds of thousands of kilometers at least).

This video, taken by the Polish Fireball Network, shows it moving roughly SE to NW; note the Big Dipper on the horizon.


As it happens, the annual Taurid meteor shower is ramping up right now. It's possible this was related; that shower is known for its fireballs. The direction kinda sorta lines up, and the radiant of the shower (the part of the sky from which meteors appear to come) was just on or above the horizon at that time, so it's possible. But if this fireball was in fact from a chunk of metal, it wasn't related; Taurids come from an old comet, and have essentially no metal. Hopefully we'll know more soon.

The final question is, how big was the meteoroid? It's hard to tell. I'd guess it was less than a meter across, but that really is just a guess. Objects that small rarely survive re-entry intact, but again it depends on what they're made of.

All in all, a nice example of a fireball, and a good reminder that our atmosphere does a great job protecting us from the 100 or so tons of material that hits us every day.

And, of course, a reminder to look up. You never know what you might see.



http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/11/01/halloween_fireball_bright_meteor_over_europe.html

yep kinda sounds like it was from the taurids..good article with lots of info and vids




http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151105-meteor-shower-astronomy-star-moon-planets-stargazing-night-sky/

By Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic

PUBLISHED November 05, 2015

This week, the night sky will light up with a flurry of bright meteors.

The annual South Taurid meteor shower centers around the constellation Taurus and peaks every year between November 5 and November 12. The event is generally fairly tepid, but astronomers say it could bring a rare burst of super-bright meteors this year.


Some stunning early Taurid fireballs were spotted on Halloween weekend lighting up the skies from Poland to Thailand. These dashcam videos taken in the last few days snag amazing footage of fireballs racing across the sky