Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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Discoverer: | Jacqueline B. Fazekas |
Discovery Site: | Mount Lemmon Obs. |
Discovered: | 4 September 2024 |
Alt Names: | CAQTDL2 |
Epoch: | 4 September 2024 (JD 2460557.5) |
Uncertainty: | 5 |
Observation Arc: | 10.30 h (618.23 min) |
Aphelion: | 4.279 AU |
Perihelion: | 0.735 AU |
Semimajor: | 2.507 AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.7068 |
Period: | 3.97 yr (1,450 d) |
Mean Anomaly: | 349.188° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Inclination: | 0.528° |
Asc Node: | 162.457° |
Arg Peri: | 249.622° |
Moid: | 1.34283E-05AU |
Mean Diameter: | ~ |
Spectral Type: | C-type asteroid |
, previously known under its provisional designation CAQTDL2, was a 1-meter-sized asteroid or meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on September 5, 2024, at around 12:40 a.m. PHT (September 4, 16:40 UTC) above the western Pacific Ocean near Cagayan, Philippines. is the ninth impact event that was successfully predicted, which was discovered by Jacqueline Fazekas at NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey.
Despite the presence of Typhoon Yagi over the Philippines that the European Space Agency (ESA) initially said "might obscure the view of the asteroid", several observers reported seeing the fireball, including those who posted videos on social media.