2024 RW₁

Author(s): DaveBowman2001 N3cronium

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2024 RW₁ is a small meteoroid about 1 m in diameter. It is the ninth asteroid ever discovered before impacting with Earth, hitting off the northeastern coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines on 2024-Sept-4, 16:39 UTC roughly around 14 hours after it was first spotted by ESA's Mount Lemnon Survey

2024 RW₁ approximately 10 minutes before impact with Earth, 2024-Sept-4

Simulation of the final six seconds before impact at an altitude of 20 km

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