An Asteroid will come close to Earth in its path on October 12; however it does not pose any threat to the ground. The giant rock which is 20ft will drift pass the planet without creating a fireball in the atmosphere.

The Asteroid is named, 2010 TD54 will come within 45,000 km of Earth when it makes when it comes closest at 1051 GMT, according to US space agency NASA. The scientists say that even if it enters the atmosphere it will burn up in the atmosphere.

"Small space rocks this size would burn up in our atmosphere & pose no ground danger," the space agency’s Asteroid Watch group posted on micro blogging site Twitter. The Asteroid 2010 TD54 will be visible to through moderate microscopes however it will be difficult to spot, according to NASA officials.

The Asteroid Watch is a unit of NASA's near-Earth objects office located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The group posts information on Android regularly on Twitter.

NASA regularly tracks asteroids and comets under its Near-Earth Object Observations program. The agency has tracked about 85 percent of the largest asteroids that flew near Earth and about 15 percent of asteroids in the
460-foot class, according to a new report.