US EditionSmall, harmless asteroid burns up in Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines
- A small asteroid named 2024 RW1 harmlessly burned up over the Philippines at approximately 12:46 p.m. ET on September 4, according to the European Space Agency.
- Discovered by Jacqueline Fazekas hours earlier, it was only 3 feet long and created a green fireball before mostly disintegrating in the atmosphere.
- NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office confirmed that there was no need for evacuations as the asteroid posed no danger to humans.
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Space rock was traveling at more than 63,000 kilometers per hour. A “harmless” asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere last Wednesday afternoon and turned into a fireball in the Philippine sky. On social media, netizens recorded the phenomenon while the space rock was traveling at a speed of 63 thousand km/h. Read: Man is paralyzed after inhaling 480 balloons of hilarious gas a week for a month in the UK Calls, videos and facial recognition: how…
It was in the Philippine province of Cagayan that several users registered the object —named 2024 RW1—, which disintegrated in the atmosphere over the South Pacific. It was 1 meter in diameter.
The asteroid 2024 RW1 hits the Earth's atmosphere - just a few hours after its discovery. This makes the small celestial body something special.
The asteroid RW1 hit the atmosphere on the evening of Wednesday, September 4, creating a spectacular fireball in the eastern part of the Philippines. As evidenced by these images, the sky of the island of Luzon turned green and orange for a few seconds.
A small asteroid that was on a collision course with Earth burned up in the planet's atmosphere without causing any damage.
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