Breaking News 1-meter asteroid hits Earth over Philippines, no damage reported

a 1 Meer asteroid hits Earth over Philippines no damage reported the European Space Agency SA reported that a 1 M asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere and burned up violently at an altitude of approximately 100 km above the Earth's surface on the night of September 4th at approximately 20 to 46 tie time in the Western Pacific Ocean near Luzan Island Philippines the asteroid is expected to be harmless and and there have been no reports of damage to the public the asteroid named 2024 rw1 or CA qtd L2 was discovered on September 4th by Jacqueline fikos a research technologist with the Catalina Sky survey a NASA funded project is searched for near Earth objects NEOS such as asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth astronomers have only detected nine closen s asteroids but none of them pose a threat to Earth Jacqueline fakas discovered the asteroid using an observatory near Tucson Arizona USA the discovery report was published on NASA's asteroid watch website it is predicted that the impact with Earth's atmosphere will cause a fireball that could be seen from the east coast of the Philippines unfortunately the weather conditions along the coast of the Philippines are not favorable due to Tropical storm yagi moving through the country discovering small asteroids is usually complicated and there are many factors that make it difficult to find them and some asteroids May orbit close to Earth or hit Earth before astronomers on Earth can detect them such as their small size and dim brightness their high speed and the large number of small asteroids in space making it difficult to collect data on them all