
Small meteor lights up Philippine sky
The Peninsula
Manila: A small, bright meteor lit up skies over the northern Philippines early Thursday as it burned up entering the Earth s atmosphere, the European...
Manila: A small, bright meteor lit up skies over the northern Philippines early Thursday as it burned up entering the Earth's atmosphere, the European Space Agency and witnesses said.
The one-metre (3.3-foot) space rock, named 2024 RW1, collided with the Earth's atmosphere shortly after midnight (1639 GMT Wednesday) and caused a "harmless" but "spectacular fireball" over the Philippines' Luzon island, the ESA said.
The meteor, discovered through the Catalina Sky Survey, is only the ninth meteor that humans have ever spotted before impact.
SUCH A SPECTACULAR NIGHT SHOW, ASTEROID RW1!!! Taken from Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines! ???????????? pic.twitter.com/F133i8nibr