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Asteroid 2022 WJ1 predicted and seen as a fireball over Ontario

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Diagram of the final trajectory of asteroid 2022 WJ1 toward Earth
The computed final path of 2022 WJ1 before it burned up over southern Ontario Tomruen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A small asteroid found by the Catalina Sky Survey about three and a half hours earlier entered the atmosphere over southern Ontario at 3:27 a.m. EST, where NASA's Scout system, refined by amateur follow-up, had predicted. It broke up as a fireball near Lake Ontario.

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  1. OfficialNASA Program Predicted Impact of Small Asteroid Over Ontario, CanadaNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / 2022-11-22

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