glenc
29-03-2009, 12:44 AM
Today's APOD is interesting. They found some meteorites in the Nubian Desert in northern Sudan, 280 small meteorites (http://www.nineplanets.org/meteorites.html), now called Almahata Sitta, with a total mass of about 5 kilograms. They are from a small asteroid called 2008 TC3 that fell to Earth (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081108.html) at dawn on October 7, 2008. In Arabic, Almahata Sitta is "Station Six": a railway stop in the Nubian desert where witnesses reported seeing the bright fireball meteor.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
The place seems to have good horizons!
More info here: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/03/2008-tc3-almahata-sitta-meteorite-came.html
and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3
and the second story here: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
The place seems to have good horizons!
More info here: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/03/2008-tc3-almahata-sitta-meteorite-came.html
and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3
and the second story here: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog