The vision of an asteroid grazing the Earth may be terrifying, but scientists assure that the one that's currently hurtling in the planet's direction doesn't pose any threat of impact. It is expected to come quite close though.

According to a report in National Geographic, Asteroid 2013 TX68 will pass by on Mar. 5. It will be about nine to 11 million miles away, keeping it at least 35 times farther than the moon is to the planet.

Scientists were unable to provide a more accurate window due to the limited data available to them. The asteroid was first spotted in 2013 and researchers only got to observe it for three days before its trajectory placed it in front of the sun where the glare made it impossible to track. Since the 2013 TX68 will be coming from the direction of the sun, it is still currently obscured in the same solar glare and scientists will remain unable to track its exact trajectory until it actually passes.

Patrick Taylor, an asteroid scientist at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, explained the encounter that will happen next month.

 "On the day of the flyby, it should brighten dramatically as it moves away from the sun and hopefully one of the large asteroid survey programs that scan the sky every night will pick it up again," Taylor said. "New observations will reduce the uncertainties on the orbit tremendously and determine just how close the asteroid came to Earth."

Additional data will help the scientific community determine key information on 2013 TX68 including the speed of its rotation and its size, among others. They have already estimated the asteroid to be around 100 feet.

"There could be an order of one million near-Earth asteroids around this size class -- tens of meters in diameter -- and we have only discovered 10,000 of all sizes," Taylor added.

The Asteroid 2013 TX68 is around 50 percent bigger than the asteroid that exploded in the atmosphere above Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. This incident has spurred on the Russian government to undertake the development of defenses against near-Earth asteroids and meteoroids, according to a report from Express.co.uk.

Vladimir Putin is reportedly behind the multi-million pound project that includes the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles that are designed to blast at the space objects orbiting or heading close to the planet.

There have been no testing of such missiles yet, but the project is looking at testing them on 99942 Apophis, which is said to speed very near Earth in 2036. However, there are concerns that blowing up large near-Earth objects could result in a graver situation by sending the debris over a larger area of the planet.