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For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth. Fortunately, it is so small it is not expected to cause any damage, burning up in the atmosphere somewhere above northern Sudan in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It may, however, produce a brilliant 'shooting star'.
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The impact location has been narrowed down to 21N, 33E, at 2:46 UT, which is in in northern Sudan. The probability for impact is between 99.8% and 100%.
The asteroid will track from the northwest, so observers in Europe, northern Africa could possibly see the atmospheric entry phase.
Depending on the composition the atmospheric impact and breakup should release ~ 1 kiloton of energy.

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Steve Chesley (JPL) reports that atmospheric entry will occur on 2008 Oct 07 0246 UTC [Oct 6 at 10:46 p.m. Eastern US time] over northern Sudan.
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2008 TC3
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2008TC3 - impactor table
 
Object: 2008TC3    

     date         MJD       sigma sigimp   dist +/-   width    stretch    p_RE    exp. en.    PS  
   YYYY/MM                                 (RE)       (RE)      RE/sig               MT           
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2008/10/07.116  54746.116   2.824 0.000    1.91 +/-    0.001  4.01E-03  9.98E-01  6.01E-04   1.69


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The absolute magnitude indicates that the
object will not survive passage through the atmosphere.


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Asteroid 2008 TC3
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Orbital elements:
2008 TC3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0000 AU
Epoch 2008 Oct. 6.0 TT = JDT 2454745.5                  MPC
M 328.44590              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.68871009     Peri.  233.94885     +0.37343159     -0.92760486
a   1.2699260      Node   194.13377     +0.86362066     +0.35153118
e   0.2847655      Incl.    2.32440     +0.33868601     +0.12639247
P   1.43           H   30.4           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2008-T50 

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A small planetoid with name 8TA9D69 can cross Earths atmosphere just in few hours, chances of this are about 90%.
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A small asteroid (H=30) was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon.
8TA9D69 (2008 Oct. 06.2 UT. R.A. = 23 16.8, Dec. = +07 52, V = 18.9)
The 0.002 km asteroid is predicted  to collide with the Earth at 1:53 UT, 7th October, 2008.
Date       UT   *  R.A. (J2000) Decl.  Elong.  V        Motion     
            h                                        "/min   P.A.
2008 10 06 14     23 20 29.8 +08 24 52 157.6  18.1    9.46  068.1  
2008 10 06 15     23 21 08.1 +08 28 39 157.7  18.0   11.00  068.2   
2008 10 06 16     23 21 52.9 +08 33 06 157.9  17.8   12.96  068.2  
2008 10 06 17     23 22 46.1 +08 38 21 158.0  17.6   15.49  068.2  
2008 10 06 18     23 23 50.3 +08 44 41 158.2  17.4   18.82  068.3  
2008 10 06 19     23 25 09.2 +08 52 26 158.5  17.1   23.37  068.3  
2008 10 06 20     23 26 48.4 +09 02 10 158.9  16.8   29.77  068.4  
2008 10 06 21     23 28 57.1 +09 14 43 159.3  16.5   39.21  068.5  
2008 10 06 22     23 31 50.6 +09 31 33 159.9  16.2   53.94  068.6  
2008 10 06 23     23 35 57.0 +09 55 15 160.8  15.7   78.80  068.8  
2008 10 07 00     23 42 14.0 +10 31 02 162.2  15.2   125.6  069.0   
2008 10 07 01     23 53 01.7 +11 31 07 164.3  14.4   230.2  069.6   
2008 10 07 02     00 15 42.8 +13 31 00 168.1  13.4   542.8  070.8   
2008 10 07 03     01 28 55.5 +18 49 08 164.0  12.0    2187  076.1

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