Space rock 2015 TB145 is the size of a skyscraper at an estimated 1300 feet long (~400m) and will zoom past Earth on Oct. 31st, 2015 at a distance of roughly 300,000 miles. ESA’s Optical Ground Station in the Canary Islands (Teide Observatory) captured a few frames of the asteroid on Oct. 27th. (See the ‘Space Pumpkin’ fly by Earth in this orbit animation )
Credit: Space.com / ESA
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