The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has reported that an asteroid will pass very close to the earth on Sunday. According to the agency, the house-sized asteroid won't hit Earth.

Called 2014 RC, the asteroid will safely pass Earth at 2:18 p. m. EDT (1818 GMT) on Sunday. The asteroid is expected to pass over New Zealand. A NASA statement said that 2014 RC will fly below the ring of geosynchronous communications and weather satellites orbiting about 36,000 kilometers above earth's surface. The asteroid will be about 34,000 km above the planet's surface.

NASA officials said, "Asteroid 2014 RC was initially discovered on the night of August 31 by the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, and independently detected the next night by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, located on the summit of Haleakal? on Maui".

According to NASA, it is not possible to catch sight of 2014 RC with naked eye, but through telescopes, astronomers can catch the glimpse of it.

This weekend, two webcasts are going to feature the asteroid flyby. Slooh Community Observatory will start asteroid webcast on September 6 at 10 p. m. EDT. Apart from that, The Virtual Telescope Project will also feature images of the asteroid on September 6.

NASA said that the fast moving asteroid isn't threat to earth and the satellites moving around the planet. Added to that, it could offer researchers a chance to discover about asteroids as it will pass so close to earth.

To know the future threat of near-Earth object to the planet, scientists at NASA have mapped out asteroid's future orbits.

In a statement, NASA officials said that 2014 RC's future orbit will bring it back to be close to earth. Researchers have monitored its future motion and no threats have been found yet.