Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth

Bruce Willis is on standby, just in case.

This was more than 24 hours ago. Does anyone have some video of this event to link to?

General: http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/asteroid-2008-tc3-hits-sudan/

From: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Headlines.html - Pre-crash picture: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/icq/earth.jpg

<"....2008 TC₃. An asteroidal object perhaps 2-3 meters in size, which was discovered at Mt. Lemmon on Oct. 6.28 UT, will hit the earth's atmosphere on Oct. 7.115 over Sudan, moving west to east (contrary to the wording on IAUC 8990) at a velocity of 12.9 km/s. 2008 Oct. 6. A computer-generated image (created by Syuichi Nakano, Sumoto, Japan) of the collision of 2008 TC₃ with the earth is available here. Most (if not all) of the object is expected to burn up upon entry through the earth's atmosphere, though it is likely that some small pieces (a few cm or a few mm in size) will survive to hit the ground as meteorites....">

Video of composite images is here: http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7468

Other pics here: http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/astronomy/2008/10/07/image-of-october-6-fireball.aspx

That's the best I found, so far.

Kind Regards....

This happens several times a month. NORAD went nuts until they figured out what was going on. What is news is that someone finally seen and tracked the cause not the effect.

It is a start. Give the discoverer a job well done.

Brad