Near Earth Asteroid

There’s an asteroid that’s set to buzz Earth on Halloween. But don’t panic.

The asteroid — 2015 TB145 — was only discovered on Oct. 10. While the roughly 400-metre-wide asteroid will be “buzzing” Earth, the distance is still safely away from Earth at 490,000 km.

Still, that’s fairly close for an object that size. And its speed is “unusually high” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) moving at about 35 kilometres a second.

Babak Najafi made this slick animation for Globalnews.ca about this amazing asteroid.