The crew of a KML flight may have seen saw a bright meteor in the direction of the calculated entry point approximately in the right time. Unfortunately, the plane was quite far (750 nautical miles) from the place so the event was not very impressive (satellite image of the locations of the plane and the predicted atmospheric entry point).

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gah, i'm dying to see the video or at least some pics. anyone have any luck locating any yet? i stayed up late hoping some of the vid sites would have something posted.

Image of 2008 TC3 entering into Earth's shadow hour before the impact.

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The atmospheric entry location is a remote region of northern Sudan. I would be positively surprised if somebody got video or even photos. On the other hand, objects of this size hit the Earth monthly, so the best bolide videos are probably much more dramatic than 2008 TC3's end.

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It came from Outer Space!

Thank you Kullat Nunu and 01101001, for your great efforts and sharing all this info.
Brilliant stuff!

i wonder if there would be any photographs/videos and wonder where ISS was around 0246 gmt...at a safe distance i hope.
i can track its trajectory in real time, but would like to go back to about 0246 gmt...don't know how. is it possible, at all?

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Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

Heh.. that sounds very ominous. As if it engages stealth-mode just before it hits. (BTW I think you meant to type KLM in #31)

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Planetary Society Weblog: The full story of Earth-impacting asteroid 2008 TC3

And for those who enjoy worrying:

Same as hurricane/cyclone/typhoon warnings, no? Do our best to help move those affected.

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Oops, right.

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Impact confirmed infrasonically.

For comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kt. Tunguska event was 5-30 Mt.

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So I just checked this thread after reading (for amusement purposes) the conspiracy thread about the 'UFO' around the Chinese launch. And here is something that I think is excellently illustrated.

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. Statistically speaking, knowing the particulars beforehand, you would expect that someone would have had a decent camera pointed upward.

And yet we have all this UFO video / still images / anecdotal evidence. Which either means that (a) UFOs are so frequent, we have the worst space lane traffic this side of Coruscant or (b) its 99.99999999999999% garbage.

I don't think we're Coruscant. I'd have noticed the lightsabres by now.

Just an observation.

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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.

Blog comment from Khartoum:

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?

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The impact was seen by Meteosat 8. Here's the image. Pretty much exactly where it was supposed to be.

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Diagram: 2008 TC3 Parallax - all 566 published observations from easysky.de.

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8TAF2C5 makes a near miss at 12750 +/- 300 km. If the measured absolute magnitude is correct (H = 33.2), it would be the smallest detected asteroid pebble detected, smaller 2008 TC3.

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Planetary Society Weblog: Images of the 2008 TC3 fireball from space!

Nothing not already mentioned here, I think, but with more analysis.

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Today's APOD picture features the persistent train of 2008 TC3 fireball. It must have been an awesome sight.

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The report from a month after the event.


http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2008tc3.html
"The data are consistent with the predicted arrival direction and time and suggest a kinetic energy of about 1.1 - 2.1 kilotons of TNT. "

One year after impact, Universe Today article.

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