Can't hide the rocks. #2022WJ1

RT @AstroKatie@twitter.com

I wrote about how astronomers getting advance notice of a tiny meteor crashing into southwestern Ontario proves that the government can’t hide killer asteroids from you (or prevent you from finding them yourself) https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/you-help-protect-earth-asteroid/ for @sciencfous@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1601215755890360321

RT @RedSpmn
El asteroide #2022WJ1 convertido en bola de fuego sobre #Canadá
No lo habéis visto en las noticias pero fue: ¡El sexto pequeño asteroide descubierto poco antes de impactar con la Tierra! https://twitter.com/pgbrown/status/1594024499862982658

RT @RedSpmn@twitter.com

El asteroide #2022WJ1 convertido en bola de fuego sobre #Canadá
No lo habéis visto en las noticias pero fue: ¡El sexto pequeño asteroide descubierto poco antes de impactar con la Tierra! https://twitter.com/pgbrown/status/1594024499862982658

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RedSpmn/status/1597217498566627331

Another thread on #2022WJ1.

RT @esaoperations@twitter.com

The sixth #AsteroidImpact we saw coming☄️👉https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/The_sixth_asteroid_impact_we_saw_coming

#PlanetaryDefence
📸Robert Weryk

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1595794967888273410

@fcain @r000t More seriously: Current and upcoming survey programs are designed to give days to weeks of notice for most things like the 2013 Chelyabinsk impactor.

For things a thousand times less massive that don't directly endanger people like #2022WJ1, they only give hours of notice.

For fun, I tried spinning view around the earth, to better show the trajectory of impact asteroid 2022WJ1 on Nov 19, 2022 at 8:27 UTC. #Astronomy #2022WJ1

#2022WJ1

RT @AsteroidWatch@twitter.com

ICYMI: Over the weekend, a very small #asteroid discovered by @Catalina_Sky@twitter.com safely disintegrated in Earth’s atmosphere over southern Ontario, Canada. @NASA@twitter.com systems tracked it and predicted its harmless impact on Nov 19.

Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3U7WoeA

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AsteroidWatch/status/1595147964615659521

RT @astroengine@twitter.com

2022 WJ1 was a tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth. But astronomers saw it coming, and NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system calculated where it would hit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-program-predicted-impact-of-small-asteroid-over-ontario-canada (photo credit: Robert Weryk) #2022WJ1 #PlanetaryDefense #Scout

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/astroengine/status/1595145748097613825

An incredible achievement by the planetary defense community! #2022WJ1 was a tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth. But astronomers saw it coming, and NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system calculated where it would hit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-program-predicted-impact-of-small-asteroid-over-ontario-canada #CNEOS #PDCO #NASA #Scout #PlanetaryDefense

Updated potential fall map for fragments of #2022WJ1.

RT @pgbrown@twitter.com

https://news.westernu.ca/2022/11/niagara-meteor/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/pgbrown/status/1594799482243551233

Western University Meteor Group share information on likely fall zone for remnants of Asteroid 2022 WJ1. Information and images courtesy of Western Meteor Group. #meteor #asteroid #Ontario #Canada #astronomy #WesternU #groundpath #2022WJ1 https://news.westernu.ca/2022/11/niagara-meteor/

More details on views of the #2022WJ1 / #C8FF042 fireball from the ground.

RT @IMOmeteors@twitter.com

☄️For the 6th time in human history, and for the 2nd time in 2022, Man managed to observe an asteroid before it entered the Earth atmopshere. Meter-sized 2022 WJ1 produced a dramatic fireball over Ontario on Nov. 19th, 3 hours after it was discovered: https://www.imo.net/2022-wj1-6th-predicted-earth-impact/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IMOmeteors/status/1594806115811860482

A small asteroid burned up over Southern Ontario Saturday morning, and was followed by another bright fireball Saturday night.
- the first is now one of only six asteroids that were discovered prior to impact, and it may be the only one that impacted over a heavily populated area!
#asteroid #2022WJ1 #C8FF042 #meteor #fireball #space

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/two-fireballs-in-one-day-blazed-over-southern-ontario-this-weekend

Instructions for reporting suspected meteorites to @westernuScience@twitter.com and @ROMtoronto@twitter.com.

RT @willgater@twitter.com

Scientists now think the small asteroid that hit the atmosphere over Ontario on Saturday dropped meteorites.

Recovery would be of real scientific importance, not least because #2022WJ1 was observed in space prior to impact.

Details for folks in the area: https://news.westernu.ca/2022/11/niagara-meteor

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/willgater/status/1594792733469712389

RT @willgater@twitter.com

Scientists now think the small asteroid that hit the atmosphere over Ontario on Saturday dropped meteorites.

Recovery would be of real scientific importance, not least because #2022WJ1 was observed in space prior to impact.

Details for folks in the area: https://news.westernu.ca/2022/11/niagara-meteor

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/willgater/status/1594792733469712389

Discovery images of #C8FF042 / #2022WJ1.

RT @catalina_sky@twitter.com

This morning at 8:26:59 UT a #asteroid disintegrated over the city of Brantford Ontario. The object (2022 WJ1) was 1m in size & caused no reported damage. Discovered by CSS observer David Rankin, it was quickly identified as a small & harmless impactor by #NASA's CNEOS

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/catalina_sky/status/1594187534480732160

Image description for last post, since I still can't add those with the reposting tool:

Estimated ground track for meteorites that were part of asteroid #C8FF042 / #2022WJ1 before it impacted Earth's atmosphere early on the morning of 2022 November 19.

The track runs along the southern coast of Lake Ontario, with some meteorites having landed in the lake and others potentially having landed on the shoreline west of the city of St. Catharines.

Detected by weather radar from Buffalo, New York.

#C8FF042 now indexed as #2022WJ1: https://twitter.com/Yeqzids/status/1593976738153127939