The long-lasting persistent train of the 2008 TC3 re-entry on October 7th (NASA) At long last, we have visual evidence of the 2008 TC3 impact over the remote Sudanese skies. Admittedly, it’s not a video of the dazzling fireball ploughing though the upper atmosphere, before detonating with the energy...

Rocks are being thrown at us, but we haven’t noticed Artist impression of an asteroid impact - don't worry, this doesn't happen very often... (Getty Images) On October 7th, a small asteroid called 2008 TC3 exploded in the skies above Sudan. On October 9th, a metre-wide asteroid named 2008 TS26...

2008 TC3 generates a huge fireball according to weather satellite Meteosat 8 (Zdenek Charvat, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute) There may not be any ground-based imagery of the 1.1-2.1 kT fireball after asteroid 2008 TC3 hit the Earth’s upper atmosphere above Sudan, but we now have the first...

Predicted region of atmospheric impact according to infrasound observations (Peter Brown, University of Western Ontario) 2008 TC3 wasn’t a particularly interesting asteroid. It wasn’t very big (only 1-5 metres wide) and it didn’t really stand out as being special (if it was special,...

Artist impression of a meteorite entering the Earth's atmosphere (©Leonard Wikberg III) A newly discovered asteroid called 2008 TC3 will (with a 99.8-100% probability) hit the atmosphere over northern Sudan at 2:46 UTC (Oct 7th). The piece of rock will not threaten people or structures on the surface,...