On October 31, an asteroid zipped past Earth, and revealed something, which was considered to have a spooky resemblance to a human skull or jack-o-lantern. As per the Verge, the US Space Agency NASA has gathered many detailed images of the space object when it whizzed within 1.3 lunar distances of the planet Earth, which is nearly 300,000 miles above the surface.

The asteroid has been given an official name, 2015 TB145. It was trekked by the planet at 1pm on Halloween afternoon and zoomed by at 22-miles per second. The US Space Agency pointed radar at the asteroid when it traveled by and three days later, released the resulting high-resolution pictures.

The contours of the surface of the asteroid gave it a creepy resemblance to objects linked to the Halloween holiday, such as a pumpkin, as per some, and some estimated it to be a skull.

Kelly Fast of NASA said that some of the radar photographs have displayed a space rock that ‘seems to have donned a skull costume for its Halloween flyby’.

According to NASA, the real form of the asteroid was that it was possibly a dead comet, nearly 600-meters wide, that rotates once in every 5 hours or so.

In a statement, Vishnu Reddy of the Planetary Science Institute said they have discovered that the object reflected about 6% of the light it gets from the sun. Reddy added that it was similar to fresh asphalt, and while here on the planet Earth they thought that it was pretty dark, it was brighter as compared to typical comet which reflects just 3% to 5% of the light. Reddy mentioned, “That suggests it could be cometary in origin –- but as there is no coma evident, the conclusion is it is a dead comet”.