Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky discovered the previously unknown small celestial body on this past Saturday evening, now named Sar2736 with diameter estimated at about one meter (=3.28 ft).
The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adopted the asteroid under the name 2024BX1 . The first calculations suggested that the approaching chunk would disintegrate at 0:32 a.m. somewhere west of Berlin.
Exactly at the precalculated time at 12:32 a.m. near Berlin, the asteroid entered the atmosphere not far from the moon at a steep angle – as a glowing ball at a speed of several kilometers per second. The luminous phenomenon was seen at a greater distance, with webcams in Leipzig and Prague recording the phenomenon.
Some fragments of the bolide, which originally weighed several tons, could have reached the earth's surface, so this morning some will search for those.
As if things didn’t seem apocalyptic enough already, scientists reported that a “horned” comet three times bigger than Mount Everest exploded and is hurtling toward Earth.
