Skull-shaped meteors are about to rush through the Earth
Scientists predict the 2015 TB145 meteorite, possibly a comet, will "visit" Earth again later this year.
Meteorite 2015 TB145.
will fly over Earth at a distance of 105 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon in early November, according to Science Alert. This meteorite once grazed in 2015, just 1.3 times farther from the Earth than the Moon. It is also the time of 2015 TB145 most closely in 500 years.
"This object is 625-700 meters in size, shaped like an elliptical block. Its axis is nearly perpendicular to the Earth at the closest approach , " said Pablo Santos-Sanz astrophysicist at Andalusia Institute of Astrophysics said.
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