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DALAWA SA PITONG METEORITES NA BUMAGSAK SA PILIPINAS NA NAPUNTA SA KAMAY NG MGA DAYUHAN, NAIBALIK NA SA PILIPINAS.
Dalawang matagal nang pinaghahanap na meteorite na bumagsak sa Pilipinas, naibalik na sa Pilipinas!
Makumpleto na kaya ang pitong meteorites na kumpirmadong bumagsak sa ating kalupaan?
Samantala, may isang asteroid na ‘sing laki ng gusali na puwede raw tumama sa ating planeta sa taong 2032.
Kasama kaya sa posible nitong bagsakan ang Pilipinas at may dapat nga ba tayong ikapangamba?
Panoorin ang video.
"Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho" (One at Heart, Jessica Soho) is the Philippines' top-rating news magazine program, hosted by one of the most-awarded broadcast journalists in the country, Jessica Soho. It features human interest stories, food, news personalities, travel, trends and pop culture.'KMJS' airs every Sunday, 8:15 PM on GMA Network. Subscribe to youtube.com/gmapublicaffairs for our full episodes. #KMJS
DALAWA SA PITONG METEORITES NA BUMAGSAK SA PILIPINAS NA NAPUNTA SA KAMAY NG MGA DAYUHAN, NAIBALIK NA SA PILIPINAS.
Dalawang matagal nang pinaghahanap na meteorite na bumagsak sa Pilipinas, naibalik na sa Pilipinas!
Makumpleto na kaya ang pitong meteorites na kumpirmadong bumagsak sa ating kalupaan?
Samantala, may isang asteroid na ‘sing laki ng gusali na puwede raw tumama sa ating planeta sa taong 2032.
Kasama kaya sa posible nitong bagsakan ang Pilipinas at may dapat nga ba tayong ikapangamba?
Panoorin ang video.
"Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho" (One at Heart, Jessica Soho) is the Philippines' top-rating news magazine program, hosted by one of the most-awarded broadcast journalists in the country, Jessica Soho. It features human interest stories, food, news personalities, travel, trends and pop culture.'KMJS' airs every Sunday, 8:15 PM on GMA Network. Subscribe to youtube.com/gmapublicaffairs for our full episodes. #KMJS
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00:00Meteorites that fall from space are considered treasures like the two meteorites that fell in the Philippines last year but were released to our country.
00:20Fortunately, this week, these were returned.
00:26Big news now all over the world!
00:29It is surprising that there is an asteroid that is the size of a house that can hit our planet in 2032.
00:39This is the Asteroid 2024-YR4, which is estimated to be 100 to 130 feet in size.
00:48There are reports that it has a similar impact to a nuclear detonation in the atmosphere.
00:54The big question now is, where can it hit?
00:59Will the Philippines be affected?
01:02If possible, this is not the first time that an asteroid has fallen in our country.
01:08In fact, there are 7 confirmed meteorites that hit our continent.
01:15The Pampanga Meteorite fell in 1859 in Mexico City, Pampanga.
01:21The Paitan Meteorite in Ilocos Sur in 1910.
01:25The Calivo Meteorite in Aclan in 1916.
01:29The Pantar Meteorite in Lanao del Norte in 1938.
01:34And the 2-million-year-old Bondoc Meteorite found in Bondoc Peninsula in Quezon Province in 1956.
01:44The Orconuma Meteorite in Oriental Mindoro in 2011.
01:49And the last on the list is the Pongo Meteorite that fell in Cagayan Valley in 2022.
01:57These meteorites went to different parts of the world.
02:02Some were displayed in museums, while others were hidden by private collectors.
02:07These meteorites came from a wide range of hot items.
02:12It also depends on the scientific value or if it has a history.
02:16There are meteorites that come from the moon.
02:18Sometimes it can reach from 1,000 to even 30,000 dollars per gram.
02:2230,000 is about 1.5 million pesos per gram.
02:25More than the value of this.
02:27But in the past few months, there was a group that was able to find two meteorites that fell in the Philippines.
02:36They were forced to return it to the country to reunite the seven Philippine meteorites.
02:43Will they succeed?
02:47A lot of people were shocked by these stones.
02:51The geologist and geoscientist Christian is one of them.
02:55He holds a fragment of four of the seven Philippine meteorites.
03:01The Orconuma Meteorite is part of his collection.
03:06This is what three farmers saw in Oriental Mindoro.
03:10In 2019, the first to be found here in KMJS were the farmers Erick, Fredo, and Edgar.
03:17They found a stone in a vacant lot in Barangay Orconuma in Bungabong, Oriental Mindoro in 2011.
03:26They believed that it was a meteorite.
03:29Later, they sold the stone to a meteorite collector from America, John Higgins, for only 580,000 pesos.
03:39What we received was only 580,000 pesos.
03:42Until they were told that the stone they found was in the meteoritic bulletin database of the international organization, the Meteoritic Society.
03:54The stone was confirmed to be a meteorite.
03:57But they were shocked by its true value.
04:01It's worth 8 million.
04:03We really wasted it.
04:06This stone is from the oldest and largest of the seven Philippine meteorites, the Bondoc Meteorite.
04:15Based on a study around 2.5 million years ago, it fell here in the Philippines.
04:20There were no people here in the Philippines at that time.
04:22It was only discovered in 1956.
04:24So when it was discovered, it was already vast.
04:27Christian also holds pieces of Pantar Meteorite that fell and were found in Pantar, Lanao del Norte.
04:35This is part of a small bottle of meteorite that fell into the mountains.
04:40Our team went to Pantar, Lanao del Norte in Mindanao.
04:44My father told his father that one day, the sky here in Pantar exploded.
04:50They didn't know what a meteor was, so they thought that the sky exploded.
04:55We are now here in a possible place where Pantar Meteorite fell.
04:59When the Pantar Meteor fell, it entered this place.
05:02People were afraid of where the light came from with the stone.
05:08Christian also holds a piece of the last documented meteorite, the Ponggong Meteorite.
05:14I acquired this 13-gram specimen from a relative of the finder.
05:19It was also registered in the National Commission for Culture and the Arts
05:24as the first Philippine meteorite that is considered a cultural property.
05:29Christian's collection of meteorites is placed in container boxes.
05:34When there is more than 70% humidity in the room temperature,
05:38we close the container box to reduce the chance of the meteorite spreading.
05:45But Christian still lacks three specimens of Philippine meteorites.
05:50He is still looking for them.
05:52Until now, one of these is the Calivum meteorite, which is heavy.
05:57It is estimated to weigh 2.4 kilos.
06:00And the Pampanga meteorite, which fell in 1859, is still in storage.
06:07We got the story from an old Spanish newspaper.
06:11I think the title is Ilustracion Filipina.
06:14In 1859, the entire Pampanga fell.
06:17It is said that there was a very loud sound.
06:19At the back of the Church of St. Monica, the meteorite fell.
06:24The meteorite that was recovered back then.
06:27That meteorite was awarded in Manila.
06:30It was given to the Governor General.
06:32From there, it was sent to Madrid.
06:34The Paitan meteorite, which is said to have fallen in the town of San Juan in Ilocos Sur in 1910.
06:42In 1910, the Helios comet appeared.
06:45They have a suspect that this stone is possibly from this comet.
06:50When the laboratory examined it, it was proven that it was not from the comet, but from an asteroid.
06:57Our team learned a lot.
07:16We have a barangay of 32.
07:19Here in San Juan.
07:21But we don't have a record of having a barangay here.
07:24The search for the three missing Philippine meteorites.
07:29The mission of Christian, Melvin, Allen, Abraham, and Hiro,
07:34who are based in Switzerland, is the Philippine Meteorite Repatriation Team.
07:40In our team, we have different professions.
07:43But we have one commonality.
07:45This is our passion for meteorites.
07:47I have been collecting meteorites for 5 to 8 years.
07:51I started collecting in 2005.
07:55Until 2023, Christian's group led the search for the Paitan meteorite that fell in Ilocos Sur in 1910.
08:05We learned that a German collector and scientist had a piece of Paitan meteorite.
08:12So we contacted this German collector.
08:15We negotiated to return the Paitan main mass.
08:19We also learned that it had a Pampanga meteorite specimen.
08:23The group also agreed that these were the meteorites they were looking for.
08:28We had to go deeper.
08:30Not only in the physical test, but also in the laboratory analysis.
08:34But the negotiation to return the Paitan and Pampanga meteorites to the Philippines became challenging.
08:42After a year, we talked to this German collector.
08:46Because he didn't want to let go.
08:48The German collector really wanted us to go personally.
08:53However, it wasn't ideal for the four of us to go to Germany.
08:58So we talked to our acquaintances in other countries.
09:02So they could represent us in retrieving these two meteorite specimens.
09:07After a few months of negotiations, the Paitan and Pampanga meteorites...
09:19...were finally returned to the Philippines.
09:22We waited for around 39 years to return the Paitan meteorite.
09:26And 165 years for the Pampanga meteorite.
09:30And in a rare opportunity, the Pampanga and Paitan meteorites...
09:35...along with the other four Philippine meteorite specimens...
09:39...were shown to the public this Saturday.
09:413, 2, 1...
09:45They were shown to the public at a mall in Pasig City.
10:01We allowed people to hold these meteorites...
10:04...because they won't be used for research.
10:07So they won't be contaminated.
10:09The experience has an impact on people.
10:12I was completely amazed...
10:14...since it was my first time to hold a meteorite.
10:19Among those who went to the exhibit...
10:22...was the Santa Monica Parish...
10:24...and the Tourism Office of Mexico Pampanga.
10:27Where it is said that the Pampanga meteorite fell.
10:30I am very proud...
10:32...because our country is known to the international community...
10:36...in the field of science.
10:38We will coordinate with them.
10:40There will be an exhibit in Mexico.
10:42For the longest time, 100 plus years...
10:44...we don't have specimens of this.
10:46Now, even ordinary Filipinos who are interested in meteorites...
10:49...will have a chance to see this in the Philippines.
10:52This is a good opportunity to revisit the Pampanga meteorite.
10:56To revisit the progress of scientific development...
10:59...in the whole country.
11:00We have a plan to donate to the National Museum...
11:03...because the National Museum is free access.
11:05So, if there is an exhibit...
11:07...more people will be able to see it.
11:09Meanwhile, the information in the news...
11:12...that the 7th Philippine Meteorite is missing...
11:15...is the Calivum meteorite...
11:17...that entered the newspaper in 1916...
11:20...that is still shining.
11:22The group is still looking for the names, the leads...
11:25...on the direction of our investigation.
11:29Let's go back to the reported asteroid...
11:32...that will hit our planet in 2032.
11:35Do we have anything to worry about?
11:38The probability that this asteroid will hit the Earth...
11:46...is around 3%.
11:47Even though there is a possibility...
11:49...there is nothing to be alarmed about...
11:51...because the chance that it will hit is very small.
11:54There are experts who estimate...
11:56...what they call the risk corridor...
11:59...where this asteroid can impact.
12:02As of now, the Philippines is not there.
12:05Just a few of the things that are in the news...
12:08...can also be considered...
12:11...stones in space...
12:13...that in hitting the Earth...
12:15...make history.
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