An asteroid that crossed our planet at a safe distance of 1.3 million miles away a couple of years back is ready to make a return appearance. According to NASA, it will probably fly by again on March 5, and this time it may reach quite nearer to Earth, reaching as close as 11,000 miles.

In an announcement, NASA's Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that the object isn’t going to impact Earth. The path of the asteroid is likely to range somewhere between 11,000 miles to 9 million miles away.

After knowing that they measured that there is very minimal chance that the asteroid-called ‘2013 TX68’ could have any impact on September 28, 2017, though in that case also the odds won’t exceed one in 250 million.

The asteroid is estimated to be just 100 feet in diameter. In case it gets too close, it would burst apart in the atmosphere.

Likely flybys by the same tiny asteroid in 2046 and 2097 reportedly have an ever lesser chance of colliding with our planet.

In a press release, Paul Chodas, manager of CNEOS, said, “The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern. I fully expect any future observations to reduce the probability even more”.

NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey has discovered the asteroid in October 2013 when it approached Earth on the nighttime side. The US space agency monitored the asteroid for three days before it cross over into the planet’s daytime sky. Knowing the short time for which the object was tracked, the research team failed to predict its precise orbit around the sun.

Chodas added that the asteroid's orbit is very uncertain, and it is going to be very difficult to predict where to search for it.