Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Centre for Near Earth Orbit Studies, said: "The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern.

“This asteroid's orbit is quite uncertain and it will be hard to predict where to look for it”

If it hit our planet, the asteroid would probably blow in the atmosphere and unleash more energy than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

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Chodas added: "This asteroid's orbit is quite uncertain and it will be hard to predict where to look for it.

"There is a chance that the asteroid will be picked up by our asteroid search telescopes when it safely flies past us next month, providing us with data to more precisely define its orbit around the sun."