Skull-Shaped Halloween Close Fly-by Object!

The large space rock that will zip past Earth this Halloween is most likely a dead comet that, fittingly, bears an eerie resemblance to a skull.

Scientists observing asteroid 2015 TB145 with NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea, Hawaii, have determined that the celestial object is more than likely a dead comet that has shed its volatiles after numerous passes around the Sun.