On October 10, 2015, the Pan-STARRS Observatory, using the 1.8-meter Richie-Chretien telescope, first detected an asteroid approaching Earth, named 2015 TB145.
On Halloween, October 31, 2015, the asteroid approached the Earth at a minimum distance of 480 thousand km, which forced astronomers to give it the informal name Halloween.
Halloween is a rather specific holiday, for which characters from horror films are traditionally dressed up, where skulls are the very first paraphernalia after glowing pumpkins. And what was the surprise of astronomers when, analyzing the first images of the asteroid at close range, they discovered that the Halloween asteroid resembles a skull in shape.
The diameter of 2015 TB145 is about 600-700 meters, the distance of 480 thousand km is, by cosmic standards, quite close, so everyone watched the 2015 TB145 flyby with some concern. And when the asteroid flew away, of course, everyone forgot about it.
And now, the skull-faced piece of rock returns and approaches the Earth again in November:
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If in 2015 TB145 passed only 1.2 - 1.3 distances from the Earth to the Moon, then in November 2018 this distance will be almost a hundred times greater, which does not allow us to consider it as a threat.
However, the shape of the asteroid is very strange. If you go around the entire planet, it is quite difficult to find a rock that will look so much like a human skull. How such a shape could have come about naturally is a mystery.
And it would be okay for astronomers to just find somewhere in the Kuiper Belt a stone that looks like a skull - there are many stones flying around and, according to the theory of probability, stones can be different. But why does a stone that looks like a skull cross the Earth's orbit on the eve of the pagan, as reference books write, festivities, in the symbolism of which there are various kinds of severed heads? This is mysticism, not a mystery.
And this mysticism suggests that the object can be artificial, and its trajectory can be artificially directed. Therefore, so that astronomers do not tell about 105 lunar distances there, no one knows for sure where this stone will fly. We do not exclude that some forces can even make a meteorite out of it, in this strange world anything can happen.