2024 RW1
The sequence of four images in which 2024 RW1 (inside purple circles) was discovered | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Jacqueline B. Fazekas |
| Discovery site | Mount Lemmon Obs. |
| Discovery date | 4 September 2024 |
| Designations | |
| 2024 RW1 | |
| CAQTDL2 | |
| NEO · Apollo | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 4 September 2024 (JD 2460557.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 5 | |
| Observation arc | 10.30 h (618.23 min) |
| Aphelion | 4.279 AU |
| Perihelion | 0.735 AU |
| 2.507 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.7068 |
| 3.97 yr (1,450 d) | |
| 349.188° | |
| 0° 14m 53.799s / day | |
| Inclination | 0.528° |
| 162.457° | |
| 249.622° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.34283×10−5 AU (2.00885×103 km) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| ~1 m (3.3 ft) | |
| C-type asteroid | |
| 32.048±0.343 | |
2024 RW1, previously known under its provisional designation CAQTDL2, was a 1-meter-sized asteroid or meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on September 5, 2024, at around 12:40 a.m. PHT (September 4, 16:40 UTC) above the western Pacific Ocean near Cagayan, Philippines. 2024 RW1 is the ninth impact event that was successfully predicted, which was discovered by Jacqueline Fazekas at NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey.