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NEW YORK — Sky-gazers caught a glimpse of a spectacular fireball in the night skies of the Philippines this week.
Video posted to social media shows an asteroid, discovered on Wednesday, harmlessly burning up in Earth's atmosphere the same day, NASA said.
The asteroid — about 3 feet across — was spotted by astronomers in Arizona and broke apart over the coast of the Philippines hours after the discovery.
This space rock, dubbed 2024 RW1, is only the ninth to have been spotted before its impact. Asteroids around this size hurtle toward Earth about every two weeks without posing any danger.
The asteroid was discovered through the Catalina Sky Survey, which is run by the University of Arizona and funded by NASA.
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