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

From: ensoramanda <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:27:31 +0100
Message-ID: <48EA82C3.4040107_at_ntlworld.com>

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
>
>Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan
>Don Yeomans
>NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
>October 6, 2008
>
>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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