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Asteroid, Meteor, Meteorite In the early morning of October 6, 2008 an asteroid close to Earth was.

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1 Asteroid, Meteor, Meteorite http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/April10/AlmahataSitta.html In the early morning of October 6, 2008 an asteroid close to Earth was detected by a Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) telescope at Mount Lemmon, Arizona. It entered and broke up in Earth's atmosphere 19 hours later leaving behind a luminous train of clouds in the sky and meteorites on the desert floor. CSS telescope discovery images of asteroid TC 3 Train station sign in the Nubian Desert

2 Asteroid, Meteor, Meteorite http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/April10/AlmahataSitta.html 280 meteorite fragments (weighing 3.95 kilograms) have been found. Almahata Sitta is an anomalous polymict ureilite: A spectacular mixture of lithologies giving new clues to the mineralogy, density, thermal history, magnetism, and geologic evolution of its parent body.

3 Asteroid, Meteor, Meteorite http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/April10/AlmahataSitta.html


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