#Asteroid 2019 MO #Explodes Over The #CaribbeanSea

The small & harmless 4 meter asteroid was detected by NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite on the 22nd June 2019 12 hours before impact.

Although small space rocks and fragments rain down on Earth’s atmosphere continuously, experts at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies say that large events such as the one on June 22 occur about once or twice a year. Earth’s atmosphere does its job in protecting us in these cases, causing drag or friction that disintegrates most of these small objects before they strike the ground (although a few do strike, and more fall into the ocean).