ALBAWABA - A small asteroid, named "C0WEPC5," crashed into the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday morning.
According to media sources, astronomers could not detect it before it disintegrated in the atmosphere. They discovered it while observing the skies in the early morning.
In addition, scientists confirmed that the asteroid C0WEPC5 caused a visible fireball over northern Siberia.
EarthSky revealed that according to data the asteroid measured between 1.6 and 4 feet, and was heading towards Earth at a velocity of 9.6 miles per second at about a 58-degree angle.
NASA posted on X confirming that at 11:14 am EST, a very small (<1m) asteroid will impact Earth's atmosphere and "create a harmless fireball over eastern Russia's Olyokminsky District."
It maintained: "The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the @NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch. The impact prediction was made by the Scout system at @NASAJPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)."
