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a small asteroid collided with Earth on Wednesday and burnt up over the Philippines the European Space Agency Esa said that the asteroid was 3 1 M long and struck the atmosphere around 12:46 p.m. e on September 4th above the Western Pacific Ocean near lison island named 2024 rw1 the steroid was discovered by research technologist Jaclyn Fus with the NASA funded Catalina Sky survey just hours before it collided it is a NASA funded observatory near Tucson Arizona and tracks and cataloges near Earth objects Issa informed in an exp poost that the asteroid was only the ninth to have been spotted prior to impact NASA's planetary defense coordination office reported the strike on its ex account it also informed that the impact was detected by multiple sensors the asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere creating a green Fireball several people who caught the event recorded videos and posted them on social media