Upper Austrian recorded asteroid over Berlin

The photo was taken using the all-sky meteorite tracking camera at the Gahberg Observatory near Weyregg am Attersee, Filimon said in a broadcast on Monday.

Only discovered a few hours earlier
According to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the asteroid with a diameter of about one meter had been discovered a few hours earlier by Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky, the German news agency dpa reported on Sunday.

According to astronomers, the celestial body that burned up near the German capital – it is listed under the catalog name 2024 BX1 – would have gone out near the city of Nennhausen in the German state of Brandenburg. It is said that fragments of it can be found in this area.

Small bodies from the time of planet formation
Asteroids are small bodies left over from the time the planets were formed. These irregularly shaped boulders move like planets in orbit around the sun. Most of them – said to be in the millions – are located in the so-called asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.

ESA and NASA are intensifying their search for asteroids
Basically, asteroids approaching Earth are classified as potentially dangerous if they have a diameter of about 30 meters. To date, almost 10,000 celestial bodies of this size are known.

That’s why NASA and its European counterpart, ESA, are stepping up the search for large specimens with telescopes in places like Arizona, Hawaii and Tenerife. They want to use them to discover potentially dangerous asteroids for Earth as early as possible.