Although NASA is confident the asteroid will fly past our planet some 499,000km away, while cruising at speeds over 126,000km per hour.
Despite missing Earth, experts monitoring the space debris estimate the fly-by will be the closest an asteroid has come to our home planet in close to a decade.
They also expect it will be another 12 years before we experience something similar.
“This is the closest approach by a known object this large until 1999 AN10 approaches within 1 lunar distance in August 2027,” said NASA.
Despite being estimated to be somewhere between 280 to 260 metres in diameter, space fans will still need a telescope to grab a glimpse of the giant rock as it passes Earth.
