2024 Asteroid Earth Collision In Indian Ocean. On september 4, 2024, a newly discovered asteroid named 2024 rw1 made a surprise visit to earth’s atmosphere, burning up in a brilliant green fireball above the philippines just eight. A full day after the asteroid's collision, the waves had traveled through most of the pacific and the atlantic, entering the indian ocean from both sides, and touching most of the.
The images confirm the 9km nadir crater, located 300m under the floor of the atlantic ocean, was caused by an asteroid smashing into earth at the end of the cretaceous period around 66 million. This event happened at around 7 p.m.