An Asteroid Lights Up The Sky Over The Philippines
The Catalina sky survey discovered the object early Wednesday morning.
Incredible video was captured over the Philippines on Wednesday as a three foot asteroid was seen burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.
The Catalina Sky Survey discovered the object early Wednesday morning.
NASA and @ESA’s near-Earth object study teams predict that a very small (~1 meter) #asteroid will harmlessly impact Earth’s atmosphere in a few hours at ~12:40pm EDT (~16:40 UTC) and create a fireball off the east coast of the northern Philippines. pic.twitter.com/EbmSvinQpB
— NASA (@NASA) September 4, 2024
The European Space Agency says, “This is just the 9th asteroid that humankind has ever spotted before impact.”
