Big ‘pumpkin-Halloween’ asteroid heading this way!

Un très gros astéroïde va passer “près” de la Terre le jour d’Halloween

par Rédaction de France Info lundi 26 octobre 2015 15:38

Un astéroïde de 470 mètres de diamètre va frôler la Terre, le 31 octobre 2015 © MaxPPP

La grande citrouille, un astéroïde de 470 mètres de diamètre, va “frôler” la Terre, mais sans présenter de danger, le 31 octobre 2015, jour d’Halloween. Les astronomes ne l’ont repéré qu’au dernier moment, il y a quelques jours. Trop tard s’il avait fallu faire quelque chose.

A big pumpkin, a 470 metre diameter asteroid, is going to skim past the Earth, but without presenting any danger, on 31 Oct 2015, Halloween! Astronomers didn’t spot it until the last moment, just a few days ago. Too late to do anything about it.

Les scientifiques l’ont surnommé la grande citrouille. Un astéroïde de 470 mètres de diamètre devrait frôler la terre le 31 octobre 2015. Il devrait être le corps céleste connu le plus grand à s’approcher de notre planète et ce jusqu’en 2027, a indiqué la Nasa, l’agence spatiale américaine.

Scientifically nicknamed the big pumpkin. A 470 metre diameter  asteroid will brush the earth on Halloween. It will be the biggest known celestial body to approach our planet until 2027, indicated NASA.

L’astéroïde 2015 TB145 croisera la Terre à une distance d’environ 500.000 km soit 1,3 fois la distance séparant notre planète de la Lune et ne sera probablement pas visible à l’oeil nu mais les astronomes amateurs pourront le voir avec des télescopes.

Asteroid 2015 TB145 will ross the Earth at a distance of about 500,000 kms or 1.3 times the distance between our planet and the Moon and it will probably not be visible to the naked eye. But amateur astronomers could see it with telescopes.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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