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Small, 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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