00:00There seems to be a fall of the sky that has been seen in some parts of Luzon.
00:04A ball of fire that according to the forecast is a passing asteroid.
00:10Joseph Moro was able to spot it.
00:15In the middle of the night, suddenly it became bright.
00:19The sky in Barangay Tanza in Tuguegarao City
00:22a few minutes before 1am earlier.
00:26There! Hey! Hey! Nice!
00:31It was also spotted in Karigsul in the same city.
00:36Even in the town of Santa Ana.
00:39And it was passed by a balustrade in Cagayan.
00:43The six balls of fire that fell from the sky
00:46confirmed the hope as an asteroid
00:48which is called 2024 R-W1.
00:52It was only a few hours from the asteroid was detected
00:55and it entered our atmosphere.
00:58The period of discovery and the point of entry to Earth
01:02was too close.
01:05The real thing that they saw,
01:08the real thing that entered the atmosphere,
01:10this is what we call an asteroid.
01:12According to the forecast, the asteroid will reach one meter in size.
01:16Although it was seen when it fell in the videos,
01:19there is a low chance that it will continue to fall on Earth.
01:22Its characteristic is an explosion in the high atmosphere.
01:26It means that an asteroid like that,
01:29it's only at the top,
01:31because it enters our atmosphere, it burns.
01:34So if it's too fused,
01:36it will suddenly explode.
01:38Most of it will not be able to fall here on Earth
01:42because it's only there that it crumbles, especially when it's small.
01:45This is only the tenth time
01:47in history that an asteroid was discovered
01:50before it entered the atmosphere of our world.
01:53For those who want to witness such a rare opportunity,
01:57is there a next time?
01:59Definitely there is, because we have billions of pieces
02:02of what we call asteroids
02:04around, in between Mars and Jupiter.
02:07Sometimes those will visit planet Earth.
02:11But of course, the question is when?
02:14So that's the culture of our astronomers.
02:18For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong,
02:20for Tutok 24 Horas.
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