A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of three football fields will come uncomfortably close to Earth early Tuesday.
The space rock, known as 2000 EM26, poses no threat and will pass the Earth at just under nine times the distance to the moon.
But it is defined as a potentially hazardous Near Earth Object (NEO) large enough to cause significant damage in the event of an impact.
Scientists estimate the asteroid, travelling at 27,000mph, measures 885ft across.
At its closest approach at 2am UK time, the rock will be 2.1 million miles from Earth, or 8.8 lunar distances.
Images of the asteroid making its fly-by will be captured by the Slooh robotic telescope service, which provides internet access to automated observatories.
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"We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids - sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth," said Slooh's technical and research director Paul Cox.
"Slooh's asteroid research campaign is gathering momentum with Slooh members using the Slooh robotic telescopes to monitor this huge population of potentially hazardous space rocks. We need to find them before they find us."
2000 EM26 makes its appearance almost exactly a year after two major NEO events on February 15, 2013.
As scientists tracked a 98ft wide asteroid that brushed by the Earth at a distance of 17,200 miles, another space rock unexpectedly exploded above Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The meteor, thought to measure 65ft across, released the energy of 20 atomic bombs 18 miles above the ground.
Thousands of buildings were damaged and many people injured by flying glass and debris, but no one was killed.
Slooh host and astronomer Dr Bob Berman said: "On a practical level, a previously unknown, undiscovered asteroid seems to hit our planet and cause damage or injury once a century or so, as we witnessed on June 20, 1908, and February 15, 2013.
"Every few centuries, an even more massive asteroid strikes us - fortunately usually impacting in an ocean or wasteland such an Antarctica. But the ongoing threat, and the fact that biosphere-altering events remain a real if small annual possibility, suggests that discovering and tracking all NEOs, as well as setting up contingency plans for deflecting them on short notice should the need arise, would be a wise use of resources."