[meteorite-list] Fragments of impacting asteroid 2008 TC3 recovered

[lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu]

Dear Marco:

Thanks for this information. There was a minor error in it, however.

The article lists Alan Treiman at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. This
is correct. However, LPI is in Houston, Texas, not Tucson, Arizona. The
Planetary Sciece Institute is in Tucson. Close but no cigar.

Lest we forget, 2008 TC3 (discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey just north
of Tucson) was an Apollo asteroid (it was in an Earth-crossing orbit,
obviously). But it also barely crossed the orbit of Mars. Also, it was
tumbling or wobbling with a period under 100 seconds. This implies that it
was a "solid" rock, not a rubble pile.

Larry

On Fri, February 20, 2009 1:38 am, Marco Langbroek wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16635-found-pieces-of-space-rock-on
> ce-seen-heading-for-earth.html
>
> Fragments of the small asteroid impact (NEA 2008 TC3) over Sudan in
> October have
> been found.
>
> - Marco
>
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