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Old 29-03-2009, 12:44 AM
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Almahata Sitta

Today's APOD is interesting. They found some meteorites in the Nubian Desert in northern Sudan, 280 small meteorites, 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 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.blogspo...rite-came.html
and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3
and the second story here: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu...yblog/newsblog

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