[meteorite-list] Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan (2008 TC3)

[ensoramanda]

Sounds exciting....what if its an iron! May be more chance of meteorites 
produced?

Graham Ensor, nr Barwell UK

Ron Baalke wrote:


>http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html

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>Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan

>Don Yeomans

>NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office

>October 6, 2008

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>A very small, few-meter sized asteroid, designated 2008 TC3, was found

>Monday morning by the Catalina Sky Survey from their observatory near

>Tucson Arizona. Preliminary orbital computations by the Minor Planet

>Center suggested an atmospheric entry of this object within a day of

>discovery. JPL confirmed that an atmospheric impact will very likely

>occur during early morning twilight over northern Sudan, north-eastern

>Africa, at 2:46 UT Tuesday morning. The fireball, which could be

>brilliant, will travel west to east (from azimuth = 281 degrees) at a

>relative atmospheric impact velocity of 12.8 km/s and arrive at a very

>low angle (19 degrees) to the local horizon. It is very unlikely that

>any sizable fragments will survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere.

>

>Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere

>every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has

>been predicted ahead of time.

>

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