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
