An asteroid roughly the size of three football fields will flyby later on today, Feb. 17, but experts have confirmed it won't come closer than 8.8 lunar distances to Earth, according Space.com.

Asteroid 2000 EM26 reportedly poses no threat of hitting earth, but the Slooh Space Camera will track it anyway as it passes by tonight.

The asteroid is approximately 885 feet in diameter and is moving at over 27,000 mph, according to Space.com

"We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids, sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth," Slooh's technical and research director, Paul Cox said in a statement, according to Space.com. "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!"

The flyby comes almost a year after two significant near-Earth incidents occurred on Feb. 15, 2013.

One of the incidents took place when a space rock suddenly exploded above Chleyabinsk, Russia, causing significant damage to local buildings and injuring over 1,000 people.

Pieces of the meteor will be handed out to seven gold medal winners at the 2014 Winter Olympics, which is taking place in Sochi, Russia.

The entire broadcast can also be seen live on SPACE.com as well.

The Slooh broadcast will start at approximately 9 p.m. Those who wish to participate in the broadcast can do so by using the hashtag #asteroid to ask questions during tonight's show.

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