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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 are falling 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.
00:26Breaking news all over the world!
00:29It was discovered that there is an asteroid that is the size of a house that could 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 have entered our continent.
01:14The Pampanga meteorite fell in 1859 in the city of Mexico, Pampanga.
01:21The Paitan meteorite fell in Ilocos Sur in 1910.
01:25The Calivo meteorite fell in Aklan in 1916.
01:29The Pantar meteorite fell in Lanao del Norte in 1938.
01:34The Bondoc meteorite fell in Bondoc Peninsula in Quezon Province in 1956.
01:44The Orconuma meteorite fell 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 some were hidden by private collectors.
02:08These stones are from the 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.
02:17Sometimes, 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,
02:29there was a group that was able to find the 2 meteorites that fell in the Philippines.
02:36They went back to the country to gather the 7 Philippine meteorites.
02:43Will they succeed?
02:47A lot of things were found in these stones,
02:51including the geologist and geoscientist Christian,
02:55who has a fragment or piece of 4 of the 7 Philippine meteorites.
03:01As part of his collection is the fragment of the Orconuma meteorite.
03:06This is what 3 farmers saw in Oriental Mindoro.
03:10It is remembered that in 2019,
03:12the first to be found here in KMJS were the farmers Erick, Fredo, and Edgar,
03:18who picked up stones from a vacant lot in the Orconuma barangay in Bungabong, Oriental Mindoro in 2011.
03:26They believed it was a meteorite.
03:29They were the first to sell the stones to a meteorite collector from America,
03:35John Higgins, for only 580,000 pesos.
03:39What we received was only 580,000 pesos.
03:42Until they were told that the stones they picked up were already in the meteoritic bulletin database
03:49of the international organization, the Meteoritic Society.
03:54The stones were confirmed to be meteorites.
03:57But they were surprised at its true value.
04:01It is worth 8 million.
04:03We really wasted it.
04:06These stones are from the oldest and largest of the seven Philippine meteorites,
04:13the Bondoc meteorite.
04:15Based on a study around 2.5 million years ago,
04:18it 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
04:31that fell and were picked up 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, his father told him
04:47that one day, the sky here in Pantar burst.
04:50They didn't know what a meteor was.
04:52So they thought the sky burst.
04:55We are now here in a possible place where Pantar meteorite fell.
04:59When the Pantar meteor fell, it entered this place.
05:02The people were afraid.
05:04Where did that light come from with the rocks?
05:08Christian also holds a piece of the last documented meteorite,
05:12the Ponggong meteorite.
05:14I acquired this 13-gram specimen myself
05:17from a relative of the finder.
05:19It was also registered
05:21in the National Commission for Culture and the Arts
05:24as the first Philippine meteorite
05:27that is considered a cultural property.
05:30Christian's collection of meteorites
05:32is stored in container boxes.
05:34When there is more than 70% humidity in the room temperature,
05:38we close the container box
05:41to reduce the chance of the meteorite to break.
05:45But Christian still has three specimens of Philippine meteorites.
05:50He is still looking for them.
05:52Until now, one of these is the Calivum meteorite,
05:57which is estimated to weigh 2.4 kilos.
06:00And the Pampanga meteorite
06:02that fell in 1859,
06:04which was discovered in Jario.
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.
06:17There was a very loud sound.
06:19At the back of the Church of St. Monica,
06:22the 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,
06:36which is said to have fallen in the town of San Juan,
06:39in Ilocos Sur, in 1910.
06:42In 1910, the Healy's Comet appeared.
06:45They had a suspect that this stone
06:47was possibly from this comet.
06:50In the laboratory's investigation,
06:52it was proven that it wasn't from a comet
06:54if it wasn't from an asteroid.
06:57Our team went there.
07:17We have a barangay of 32 here 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
07:29is now the mission of Christian, Melvin, Allen, Abraham, and Hiro,
07:34who are based in Switzerland.
07:36The 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've been collecting meteorites for 5 to 8 years.
07:51I started collecting in 2005.
07:55Until 2023, Christian's team
07:58had a lead in the possible origin of the Paitan meteorite
08:02that fell in Ilocos Sur in 1910.
08:05We learned that a German collector and scientist
08:09had a piece of the Paitan meteorite.
08:12So we contacted this German collector.
08:15We negotiated to get the Paitan meteorite back.
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 needed to go deeper,
08:30not only in the physical test, but also in the laboratory analysis.
08:34But the negotiation to get the Paitan and Pampanga meteorites back
08:40became a challenge.
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.
08:53But it wasn't ideal for the four of us to go to Germany.
08:58So we asked our friends abroad
09:02to represent us in getting these two meteorite specimens.
09:07After several months of negotiations,
09:10in December, the Paitan and Pampanga meteorites
09:19were finally returned to the Philippines.
09:23We waited for around 39 years to get the Paitan meteorite back
09:27and 165 years for the Pampanga meteorite.
09:31And in a rare opportunity,
09:33the Pampanga and Paitan meteorites
09:36were joined by four other Philippine meteorite specimens
09:40just this Saturday.
09:413, 2, 1
09:46They were shown to the public
09:48at a mall in Pasig City.
09:52The Paitan and Pampanga meteorite specimens were shown to the public
09:56at a mall in Pasig City.
09:58The Paitan and Pampanga meteorite specimens were shown to the public
10:01at a mall in Pasig City.
10:03We allowed people to hold them
10:06because they won't be used for research.
10:09They won't be contaminated.
10:11The experience impacts people.
10:14I was completely amazed
10:16since it was the first time I held a meteorite.
10:21Among those who went to the exhibit,
10:24was the Santa Monica Parish and Tourism Office of Mexico-Pampanga
10:29where it is said that the Pampanga meteorite fell.
10:33I am very proud because our country is known to the international community
10:38in the field of science.
10:41We will coordinate with them.
10:42There is an exhibit in Mexico.
10:44For the longest time,
10:45more than 100 years,
10:46we don't have specimens of this.
10:48Now, even ordinary Filipinos who are interested in meteorites
10:51have a chance to see this in the Philippines.
10:54This is a good opportunity to revisit the progress of scientific development
10:59in the whole country.
11:00We have a plan to donate to the National Museum
11:03because the National Museum is free access.
11:05So, if there is an exhibit, more people will be able to see it.
11:09Meanwhile, the information on the existence of the 7th missing Philippine meteorite,
11:15the Calivum meteorite,
11:17which was published in a magazine in 1916,
11:20is still missing.
11:22The group is still looking for the names,
11:24the leads,
11:25where our investigation will go.
11:29Let's go back to the reported asteroid
11:32that will hit our planet in 2032.
11:35Do we have anything to worry about?
11:38The probability that this asteroid will land
11:46is around 3%.
11:47Even though there is a possibility,
11:49there is no need to be alarmed
11:50because the chance that it will hit is really small.
11:54There are experts who estimate where it is,
11:56what they call the risk corridor,
11:58where this asteroid can impact.
12:02For now, the Philippines is not there.
12:05Only a few things that are in the public eye
12:08can also be considered
12:11The stones in the vastness of the earth
12:15are making history.