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Old 27-03-2009, 08:02 AM
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2008TC3 - Last Year's Impactor

Remember the impact from the NEA last year over Africa?

Here's a story about it and the search for fragments:

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/0903...l/458401a.html

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Old 27-03-2009, 08:17 AM
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Very interesting article, at least it wasn't your garden variety "rock" (chondrite) but a Ureilite....(which doen't mean it is made up of urea ). It has originated from a parent body large enough to have become molten during its formation, possible sources for such rocks are the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Ceres, Vesta etc.
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