2024 RW1 explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. FFC2E0
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.

Ground observation

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.

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