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    2008 TC3 (Catalina Sky Survey temporary designation 8TA9D69) was an 80-tonne (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered...
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  • TC3 may refer to: Tc3 transposon, a transposon in Caenorhabditis elegans 2008 TC3, a meteoroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008 Tha...
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    A noted 4-metre (13 ft) asteroid, 2008 TC3, was observed in space on a collision course with Earth on 6 October 2008 and entered Earth's atmosphere the...
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    town in which it landed (Goalpara, Assam India). On 7 October 2008, tiny asteroid 2008 TC3 entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded an estimated 37 kilometres...
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    In 2008, Jenniskens, together with Muawia Shaddad, led a team from the University of Khartoum in Sudan that recovered fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3 in...
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    noxious gases shortly after the impact. On 7 October 2008, an approximately 4 meter asteroid labeled 2008 TC3 was tracked for 20 hours as it approached Earth...
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  • Shaddad, Muawia H.; et al. (October 2010). "The recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3" (PDF). Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 45 (10–11): 1557–1589. Bibcode:2010M&PS...
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    only appears rarely in some oases in the desert. On 7 October 2008 the meteoroid 2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert. The sky became so bright, people...
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    Apollo asteroid (redirect from 2008 HQ3)
    Siding Spring Observatory, Australia MPC (386454) 2008 XM 2008 LINEAR List 2008 TC3 2008 CSS MPC 2008 FF5 2008 CSS–Mount Lemmon Survey MPC 2007 VK184 2007 CSS...
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    by the target date of 2008 and also produced the first ever successful prediction of an asteroid impact (the 4-meter 2008 TC3 was detected 19 hours before...
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    Dodge Omni 024 (redirect from Plymouth TC3)
    Omni and Horizon prefixes were dropped for 1981, making them the "024" and "TC3", respectively. The 024 did not sell well and was renamed as the Dodge Charger...
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    .169G. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00792.x. S2CID 140554080. Gasperini, Luca; Bonatti, Enrico; Longo, Giuseppe (2008). "The Tunguska Mystery". Scientific...
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    (2001–2010) The first spectrum of an asteroid which subsequently hit Earth, 2008 TC3 (2009) The first spectrum of Hanny's Voorwerp (2009) The discovery that...
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  • original on October 9, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2008. Chesley, S.; Chodas, P.; Yeomans, D. (November 4, 2008). "Asteroid 2008 TC3 Strikes Earth: Predictions...
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  • asteroids. 1st Discovered: 1862 Apollo (1932) Largest: 1866 Sisyphus Smallest: 2008 TC3 (destroyed in Earth's atmosphere), 2003 SQ222 Smallest Perihelion: 2004...
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    7, 2008, 20 hours after it was first observed and 11 hours after its trajectory has been calculated and announced, 4 m (13 ft) asteroid 2008 TC3 blew...
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    S2CID 67851874. Jenniskens, P.; et al. (2009). "The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3". Nature. 458 (7237): 485–488. Bibcode:2009Natur.458..485J. doi:10.1038/nature07920...
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    Notable for imaging the first meteor to be predicted to strike the Earth, 2008 TC3. Launched 28 Aug 2002 by an Ariane V155, this European Meteorology satellite...
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    would have been roughly the size of 2008 TC3, which exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan on 7 October 2008. Calculations by Chesley suggest the...
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    Chesley (2008). "Astrometric masses of 21 asteroids, and an integrated asteroid ephemeris". Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 100 (2008). Springer...
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  • as (2003) UB313. Eris was named after the IAU General Assembly in 2006. 2008 TC3 becomes the first Earth-impacting meteoroid spotted and tracked prior to...
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  • 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into Earth's atmosphere. 2008...
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    kamacite. The Gebel Kamil meteorite has been classified as an ataxite. 2008 TC3 Glossary of meteoritics "Gebel Kamil Meteorite". Retrieved 8 January 2013...
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    their Earth-MOID calculated before Earth impact were the small asteroids 2008 TC3 and 2014 AA. 2014 AA is listed with a MOID of 0.00000045 AU (67 km; 42 mi)...
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  • 2013. On October 6, 2008, while observing with the CSS 1.5 meters (59 in) telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory, he discovered 2008 TC3. Approximately 20...
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  • (November 22, 2008). "Hunt on for space rock". The Vancouver Sun. The Edmonton Journal. Archived from the original on December 10, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-24...
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    as of 2008 TC3, several kilograms in total were expected to have reached the ground and be recoverable, if estimates of 40% as massive as 2008 TC3 were...
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    successfully predicted to impact Earth 2024 RW1 2024 UQ Meteorite fall 2008 TC3, the first asteroid to have its meteorites collected after its predicted...
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  • spacecraft makes the second of its three flybys of Mercury. 7 October – 2008 TC3 becomes the first Earth-impacting meteoroid spotted and tracked prior to...
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    around 3–6 metres (10–20 ft) in diameter so similar to Earth-impactors 2008 TC3, 2014 AA, 2018 LA, and 2019 MO. 2020 QG orbits the Sun at approximately...
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