The asteroid originally expected to pass by earth Wednesday, is now expected Thursday according to USA Today.
"In the last year, 21 small asteroids ranging in size from 1 to 30 meters have come closer to Earth than this. The close approach of 2014 DX110 is really a non-event in our eyes," Lindley Johnson, of NASA's Planetary Science Division in Washington D.C. told My Fox Houston.
Interested individuals can view the sighting on the Slooh Community Observatory's website. A message on the screen ask users to hold tight and watch for the spectacle.
The 100 foot, 30 meter rock is now expected to come within 217,000 miles or 350,000 kilometers of earth Thursday. Earth is an average 230,000 miles or 385,000 kilometers from the moon.
According to USA Today, the rock tends to stick around for seven hours before going elsewhere.
The asteroid is considered one of the few that come in close proximity to Earth the Business Standard reported. The asteroid is classified as an Apollo which are typically known to travel by the earth.
NASA monitors, follows and categorizes asteroids, and also comets via telescopes on the earth's surface, and in space.
The work is part of the administration's Near-Earth Object Observations Program at its Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
An asteroid the length of three football fields last came close to earth Feb. 17.
According to Fox News, the asteroid named 2000 EM26 was also not a threat to the third planet from the sun.
The rock measured 885 feet, and can travel through space at 27,000 mph according to Slooh Fox News reported. Scientists predicted the asteroid would approach Earth within 8.8 lunar distances from Earth Fox News reported.
Another asteroid, which astronomers call 2014 CU13 is expected to come near but not crash into earth Sunday My Fox Houston reported.
