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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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    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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    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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    noxious gases shortly after the impact. On 7 October 2008, an approximately 4 m asteroid labeled 2008 TC3 was tracked for 20 hours as it approached Earth and...
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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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    asteroids are regularly being discovered. The small near-Earth asteroids 2008 TC3, 2014 AA, 2018 LA, 2019 MO, 2022 EB5, 2022 WJ1, 2023 CX1 and 2024 BX1 are...
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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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    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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  • approaches to Earth in 2008. 2008 was the first year that an asteroid was successfully detected before it impacted earth (2008 TC3 was the first successfully...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    .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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  • 2013. On October 6, 2008, while observing with the CSS 1.5 meter (60") telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory, he discovered 2008 TC3. Approximately 20 hours...
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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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  • estimated to be 3-meters in diameter which would make an impact comparable to 2008 TC3. It has a very short observation arc of 0.4 days and was first imaged on...
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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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    Chesley (2008). "Astrometric masses of 21 asteroids, and an integrated asteroid ephemeris". Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 100 (2008). Springer...
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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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    (90 million km) from Earth on that date. Such an impact would be similar to 2008 TC3. With a 24-day observation arc, 2017 SA20 has the most virtual impactors...
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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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    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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    Ophiuchids orbits. The few other asteroids discovered before impacting are 2008 TC3, 2014 AA, 2018 LA, 2022 EB5 and 2022 WJ1. With only 4 observations over...
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    four-meter-diameter asteroid, called 2008 TC3, was initially sighted by the automated Catalina Sky Survey telescope, on October 6, 2008. Computations correctly predicted...
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    1'5.89"N latitude and 26° 5'15.69"E longitude. Gebel Kamil (Meteorite) 2008 TC3 Folco, Luigi; Di Martino, Mario; El Barkooky, Ahmed; D'Orazio, Massimo;...
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  • after the first image. An impact by this object would have been similar to 2008 TC3. The 2023 Earth approach lifted the orbit and increased the orbital period...
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    temporary designation Sar2593. Asteroid impact prediction Impact event 2008 TC3 2014 AA 2018 LA 2019 MO 2022 WJ1 WT1190F 2022 EB5 is not considered a potentially...
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