An eerie but totally coincidental event will take place this Halloween as an asteroid that was spotted  about two weeks ago will fly-by our planet.  The last nearby brush Earth had with a big rock took place almost a decade ago.

The speeding rock called 2015 TB145 has a diameter of 918 to 2034 feet. It will come within a distance of about 1.3 lunar distances (310,000 miles), that is, as close as our moon, with a predicted speed of 78,000 miles per hour.

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The encounter is expected to occur at around 11:14 a.m. ET on October 31, according to HuffPost Science. Close and speedy as it may seem, rest assured that the encounter would pose no threats to humans.

"This is the closest approach by a known object this large until 1999 AN10 approaches within 1 lunar distance in August 2027... The last approach closer than this by an object with H < 20 was by 2004 XP14 in July 2006 at 1.1 lunar distances," NASA stated.

Pan-STARRS I telescope, which is usually used to look out for potential dangers that may hit Earth, first discovered the celestial body.

In a report by ABC News, NASA detailed the bizarreness of the asteroid's orbit making it "cometary in nature."

For space rock enthusiast, this can serve as a "truly outstanding scientific opportunity to study the physical properties of this object," NASA stated. This amazing rendezvous will next happen in 12 years.

The luminous body cannot be seen with the naked eye, but it is visible to telescopes with a diameter of eight inches and above.

Shutting off rumors that the Earth will be hit this fall, NASA's Near-Earth Object manager Paul Chodas stated that "[there] is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth... In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century."

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