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With the bolide we had time and place a day before the impact and thus far photographs have been few and far between - just one or two from telescopes before it hit the atmosphere.
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I think there were lots of inbound images, but maybe not all published or found on the Web. I recall reading that the orbit was easy to calculate because of the many observations -- and, unlike most more distant asteroid discoveries, the fact that it was so close to Earth meant there was great parallax difference in observations from different places.
Sky and Telescope: Major Meteor on Oct. 6-7 Was Forecast in Advance
It reports southern Europeans tried and failed.
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More intriguing is a negative report from Khartoum received by Johnny Horne of the Fayetteville Observer. Khartoum and Mecca are the closest significant cities to the impact site, but each is still roughly 300 miles away. This part of the world is exceedingly arid and sparsely populated!
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Blog comment from Khartoum:
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Hi , in response to the predicted asteroid over Sudan a colleague and I got up on our roof top in Khartoum Sudan from 02:35- 03:00 UTC and scanned the skies for it and never got to see it. Are there any confirmed sightings of it and where abouts?.. Pity we couldnt film it for you guys…
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Maybe some northern Sudan desert nomad's got it on his cellphone and just hasn't uploaded it yet.
But, I'm surprised we haven't seen images from Khartoum. For instance, the University of Khartoum (
Wikipedia) has near 17000 students, some in science and engineering (no astronomy department, but astronomy courses). Too far away?