W oh my God a spectacular Fireball lit up the sky just after midnight local time on September 5th over the northern Philippines eyewitnesses captured the moment it burned up as it plunged into Earth's atmosphere finally named 2024 rw1 the approximately 1 M asteroid was small enough to be considered harmless the European Space Agency posted this was the ninth asteroid that humankind has ever spotted before impact it was discovered by Observer Jacqueline Fus with the Catalina Sky survey a project run by the University of Arizona and funded by NASA to discover and track near Earth objects [Music] [Music] w