An asteroid lit up the sky over parts of Cagayan province past midnight Thursday, just hours after being discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Survey.

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Harris Julio

ABS-CBN News

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Businessman Allan Madelar, 28, told AFP he waited an hour in Gonzaga, Cagayan to watch the meteor with a friend.&quot;It was mesmerising, the color was beautiful. The sky went from black to blue-green to orange and black again,&quot; he said.Video clips posted on Facebook and verified by AFP showed an orange-tailed fireball that briefly illuminated the night sky over Luzon.Audie de la Cruz, 65, set up his camera on a bridge in Tuguegarao city, 142 kilometers south of Gonzaga, to photograph the celestial spectacle but the fireball died out before he could press the shutter.&quot;It was like a tadpole with a very big head, and its head was very bright,&quot; de la Cruz told AFP.&quot;I might have failed to photograph it but seeing it was a very unforgettable experience.&quot;Karen Bea, a resident of Barangay Mareda in Santa Ana town, said she was able to capture video of asteroid 2024 RW1, &nbsp;which turned into a fireball at 12:39 a.m. outside her house. Resident Allan Madelar in the nearby town of Gonzaga also captured the rare phenomenon. A video of the asteroid taken by Valiant Ani&ntilde;on of Lal-lo, Cagayan showed the asteroid &ldquo;burning bright into a greenish &#39;fireball&#39; over Lal-lo, Cagayan around 12:39 AM PhST&rdquo;, according to ScienceKonek. Another video taken by Marvin Coloma showed the asteroid lighting up the sky of Tuguegarao City for a few seconds. The asteroid also lit the sky over the Pinacanauan River in Tuguegarao City, in the video taken by Dennisson Macalan.&ldquo;Based on ground reports we have received, the short-duration brightening of the sky was observed as far south as Metro Manila and Calabarzon, but the best shots of the fireball were mostly from Cagayan Valley,&rdquo; ScienceKonek said in a Facebook post.&nbsp;

The one-meter space rock, named 2024 RW1, collided with the Earth&#39;s atmosphere shortly after midnight and caused a &quot;harmless&quot; but &quot;spectacular fireball&quot; over the Philippines&#39; Luzon island, the ESA said.The meteor, discovered through the Catalina Sky Survey, is only the ninth meteor that humans have ever spotted before impact.

A small, bright meteor lit up skies over the northern Philippines early Thursday as it burned up entering the Earth's atmosphere, the European Space Agency and witnesses said.

A small, bright meteor lit up skies over the northern Philippines early Thursday as it burned up entering the Earth's atmosphere, the European Space Agency and witnesses said.

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