“A giant, green-and-yellow car”. The surprising phenomenon in the Polish sky [video] – Polish Radio

                             The asteroid, whose length exceeds 400 meters fly on Saturday at about 18:00 Polish time around the Earth.
                         

The asteroid that will fly on Saturday evening near the Earth, is not dangerous for the inhabitants of our planet – soothe astronomers.

Surprisingly however, can seem like it, that such a large object was discovered relatively recently, just three weeks ago. The asteroid has a few informal names. It is said about it “terrible” or “The Great Pumpkin” because of the celebrated Halloween on Saturday.
Really called TB-145 and no more than four meters in length – is thus 20 times larger than meteoroids, who two years ago exploded over Czelabińskiem.

However flew at a safe distance from Earth. It would be our planet at a distance of 480,000 km. – It’s farther than the moon. Really there is nothing to fear – provides an astronomer at the University of Wroclaw, Dr. Ewa Niemczura.
The interesting thing is that although NASA has a program to track the so-called near-Earth objects, the asteroid was detected only on 21 days ago. The reason is that it is difficult to observe, elongated, elliptical orbit. Astronomers think that the asteroid TB 145 is a remnant of the extinct comet.

IAR, bk