A small asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere yesterday.
<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Arab Weather - <strong>The US space agency "NASA"</strong> announced that a small asteroid penetrated the Earth's atmosphere without causing any <strong>damage.</strong> Astronomers spotted the asteroid, which is about one meter wide, in Arizona on Wednesday evening, and reported that it crashed over the coast of the Philippines hours after its discovery.</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></h2><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> What did NASA say about the asteroid?</h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The asteroid, named <strong>RW12024</strong> , is the ninth of its kind to be spotted before crashing into Earth. Asteroids of this size pass Earth at a rate of about once every two weeks without posing any danger.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey, operated by the University of Arizona and funded by NASA.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> You may also like:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D8%AE... mystery of the moon's complete disappearance from the sky in the year 1110.. A study reveals the secret behind it</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%AA-%D8%BA%D8%B1... sound heard by two astronauts stuck in a capsule that broke down in space (video)</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="en" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> NASA and <a href="https://twitter.com/esa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ESA</a> 's near-Earth object study teams predict that a very small (~1 meter) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/asteroid?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#... 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. <a href="https://t.co/EbmSvinQpB">pic.twitter.com/EbmSvinQpB</a></p> — NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1831334973011268079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"... 4, 2024</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Footage shows the CAQTDL2 meteorite, which was spotted this morning, entering a collision course with Earth.<br /> It burned up in the atmosphere <a href="https://t.co/MkT9BJCmFf">https://t.co/MkT9BJCmFf</a> <a href="https://t.co/7WP3V5t0S5">pic.twitter.com/7WP3V5t0S5</a></p> — Astronomer Mulham Hindi (@MulhamH) <a href="https://twitter.com/MulhamH/status/1831382157681684919?ref_src=twsrc%5Et... 4, 2024</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><hr /><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Sources:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> NASA</p>
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