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A “harmless” fireball from a collapsing meteorite lit up Germany’s night sky early Sunday before crashing into Earth.
2024 BX1 The asteroid, temporarily designated Sar2736, touched down near the Berlin suburb of Nenhausen around 1:30 a.m., according to astronomers and observers.
It was discovered by Hungarian astronomer Krystian Sarnetsky just hours before the collision. According to the International Astronomical Union.
NASA confirmed the accident at X about 20 minutes before impact.
“Attention: A small asteroid is scheduled to disintegrate in a harmless fireball near Nenhausen, west of Berlin, shortly after 1:32 a.m. Central European Time. If the weather is clear, even the Overseer will see it!” the space agency said. is writing.
In fact, onlookers were able to see space rocks falling from the sky, and posted amazing footage on social media from multiple vantage points.
This incident marks the eighth time an asteroid has been discovered before impacting Earth, and the third time Sarnetsky has discovered it.
Professional asteroid hunters also discovered a space rock that stuck north of Iceland in 2022 and another that exploded in the English Channel during last year’s Super Bowl.
NASA has a team that monitors large asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth.
![Denis Vida @meteordoc This is the complete video of asteroid #Sar2736. This object was about 1 m long and broke up about 50 m west of #Belin, #Germany, possibly dropping several meteorites to the ground. Video credit: https://iplivecams.com/live-cams/augu](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/sar2736-1-m-object-broke-75262119.jpg?w=789)
![Denis Vida @meteordoc This is the complete video of asteroid #Sar2736. This object was about 1 m long and broke up about 50 m west of #Belin, #Germany, possibly dropping several meteorites to the ground. Video credit: https://iplivecams.com/live-cams/augu](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/sar2736-1-m-object-broke-75262119.jpg?w=789)
The next potentially dangerous collision could occur in 2182, when a small near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of entering our atmosphere.
In 2022, the space agency successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour in a test run of a doomsday scenario designed to deflect incoming spacecraft toward Earth.
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