The asteroid that crashed in northern Sudan last year was shaped like a loaf of walnut-raisin bread, according to astronomer Peter Scheirich and colleagues at Ondrejov Observatory and Charles ...
On October 7, the husband and wife observing team of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre forwarded to Astronomy an image and an animation of the asteroid 2008 TC3 they received from amateur astronomer ...
Click to viewWith all the hullabaloo about giant asteroids that could destroy us, we tend to forget the little guy. Luckily, NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey has it covered. Last Monday, CSS astronomers ...
Image of Impact of asteroid 2008 TC3 over Northern Sudan, observed by EUMETSAT’s rapid-scanning service. Meteosat-8 IR3.9 – 07/10/08 02:45 UTC. Image of Impact of asteroid 2008 TC3 over Northern Sudan ...
Last October, astronomers found the first asteroid on a certain collision course with Earth, observing the 4-metre-long rock as it hurtled towards the planet and then exploded in the sky some 37 ...
Fortunately, it wasn’t large enough to require intervention by Bruce Willis, but asteroid 2008 TC3 is the first space rock to have been spotted before it crashed to Earth. It streaked into the skies ...
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