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Date: Oct 18 12:28 2009
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Dana Perino told a story Friday about perhaps the most unusual email she received while serving as press secretary for President George W. Bush.
It arrived 9:30 one night, from NASA, with "HEADS UP" in the subject line. It warned that an asteroid was headed toward Sudan.

"Asteroids usually break up. But the email asked us to call the Sudanese and let them know it's coming" - Dana Perino
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Date: Oct 7 22:19 2009
Meteoroid 2008 TC3
 

The asteroid that crashed in northern Sudan last year was shaped like a loaf of walnut-raisin bread, according to astronomer Peter Scheirich and colleagues at Ondrejov Observatory and Charles University in the Czech Republic. Scheirich reported his findings at the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Puerto Rico on October 5, 2009 in a special session dedicated to this asteroid one year after the fall.

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Asteroid 2008 TC3


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Date: Oct 7 00:39 2009
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Planetary scientists have reported a slew of new findings about the first asteroid ever spotted before pieces of it fell to Earth. The space rock contained a number of amino acids, had a flattened shape and appears to have been blasted off the surface of a larger body, researchers reported October 5 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Societys Division for Planetary Sciences.
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Date: Oct 5 22:11 2009
Meteoroid 2008 TC3
 

The asteroid that crashed in northern Sudan last year was shaped like a loaf of walnut-raisin bread, according to astronomer Peter Scheirich and colleagues at Ondrejov Observatory and Charles University in the Czech Republic. Scheirich reported his findings at the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Puerto Rico, which on October 5 dedicated a special session to this asteroid, "From the Heavens to the Earth: The 2008 TC3 / Almahata Sitta Ureilite Fall."
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Date: Sep 30 16:34 2009
 

On October 7, 2008, shortly before dawn in northern Sudan, a trucker named Omar Fadul el Mula was praying at a remote teahouse in the Nubian Desert when a bright flash lit up the landscape. It was as if the world had switched from night to day. He sprung to his feet, ran around the small building, and saw a huge trail of dust and debris stretched high in the sky.
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Date: Sep 21 20:56 2009
 

Photo of R. Kowalski, holding a 2.1-gram fragment of  2008 TC3.
(The telescope in the background is the 1.5-m Catalina Sky Survey telescope).

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Date: Sep 17 16:57 2009
 

WORKSHOP ON ASTEROID 2008 TC3
University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
Dec 5-15, 2009

The University of Khartoum, Faculty of Sciences and Physics Department, and the SETI Institute invite planetary astronomers and meteoriticists to participate in a workshop dedicated to asteroid 2008 TC3. Asteroid 2008 TC3 was the first asteroid to be detected in space and subsequently found to impact the Earth. Fragments were recovered in the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan in the form of rare ureilite meteorites, called "Almahata Sitta".
Goal of the workshop is to discuss the results from ongoing research into the properties of asteroid 2008 TC3 when it was still in space, its nature and origin, the asteroid's impact in Earth's atmosphere, the subsequent recovery, and the analysis of the recovered meteorites. Talks on the origin of ureilites are invited, as well as discussions on how to adjust observing strategies to increase the likelihood of future discoveries of small asteroids on a collision course with Earth.

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Date: May 8 01:00 2009
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Asteroid Impact Helps Trace Meteorite Origins


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Date: Apr 29 19:25 2009
 

Imagine that we get word that an asteroid is headed for Albuquerque. Estimated time to impact: 19 hours.
The chances of a city-killer hitting Albuquerque, or any other city on Earth for that matter, are slim. But in a remarkable series of events last October, a team of scientists around the world for the first time spotted a space rock headed toward Earth before it hit and were able to track its path and predict its time and place of impact.

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Date: Apr 29 16:42 2009
 

Twenty Hours Until Impact: The TC3 Event



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