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2008 TC 3 (Catalina Sky Survey temporary designation 8TA9D69) was an 80-tonne (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid [2] that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. [3] It exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan.
On 12 September 2008, around 08:30 hours, from the north-west sky this meteorite fell, which was observed by several people residing in the villages around the town of Sulaguri. According to the eyewitnesses, they heard a screeching sound and a bang. It was followed by house shaking explosions. Bright flashes and smoke were also observed. [1]
The meteor was also referred to as the "Buzzard Coulee fireball", named after the area where searchers found the first fragments. [9] Buzzard Coulee is located approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the Battle River valley. The first pieces of the rock were found by Ellen Milley, a University of Calgary Master's student on November 27, 2008.
The crash is the first meteorite fall detected by radar in the state, the agency said. Bright ‘fireball’ flew over Maine and crashed, NASA says. Whoever finds it gets $25,000
A meteorite crashed in the area of Mission, Texas, Wednesday night causing a loud boom that startled residents, authorities said. Meteorite crashes in South Texas causing startling boom ...
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
In late 2019 the Kiso Observatory added a new instrument to the telescope, "Tomo-e Gozen", designed to detect fast moving and rapidly changing objects. It has a wide field of view (20 square degrees) and scans the sky in just 2 hours, far faster than any other survey as of 2021. [34] [35] This puts it squarely in the warning survey category. In ...
A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new study has found.. The asteroid, spotted by astronomers just hours before ...