2008 TC3- Small Asteroid to Light Up Sky Over Africa

[Ice3Penny]

but where was it????????????????????

[vlaerenko]

@KempSAB

Me to, national geographic i assume?

other threats are coming!! ;-)

[InKKrid]

Did anyone get a tape of this? I'm dying to see.

[flyingjazz]

Yup! An airliner saw it and a satellite got a blurry photo. See the Wikipedia entry for "2008 TC3"

[creep3k]

Did it happen?

[xxmakinen]

Well, I shot TC3 before it hit the ground. Just to make sure it doesn't make any harm. And it didn't. I used an elephant gun. They don't allow shooting elephants here in northern Sudan.

[subsoldier89]

lmao

[kanajlo]

I don't think anyone got a shot of the incoming object hitting the atmosphere. This was in Sudan, after all.

[jbfan103]

man i wish one would hit the north

[oneeyedgeek]

This sounds like it would be cool to watch. Are there any photos or video of it hitting the atmosphere?

[TheeBaker]

'king muppet

[krissto71]

Is it only destruction and war us citizens have in their mind? Just wondering.

[krissto71]

How did i guess with my first try that "usddemblogger" is from USA?

[afrikacorpse]

"About the size of a Volkswagen"

[Blavlahoemzaza]

What model Volkswagen would that be? Lupo? Polo? Beetle? Golf? Scirocco? Jetta? Passat? Touran? Touareg? Transporter?

[slaykill57]

@afrikacorpse a size of a truck

[yooki42]

About the size of a what???

[usddemblogger]

Weaponized asteroids?

Imagine if a country sent out an "interplanetary probe" that released large artificial asteroids (behind the moon, so it wouldn't be picked up by satellites). Further imagine that these asteroids could be remote controlled. You could totally wage a "passive" war that way! Explode an asteroid over an enemy city during peace time, like the Tuskan incident, without invoking war. Wonder if anyone's thought of that.

[GeneralDrizzle]

Could you imagine how much a project like that would cost?

[hellohalotime]

I thought technology is suppose to support human life not human destruction btw

[timothypilgrim]

It's already been done... Starship Troopers man!

[haegarXXI]

you've been playing too much starship troopers, kid. guess what, there are some things out there that not even your elected representatives in washington are gonna use to kill and destroy. and it's TUNGUSKA, not Tuskan.

[chris19770602]

any videos or pictures?

I`d like to see that tiny meteor

[redshift40]

One like this enters our atmosphere once every couple of months. I hope no one in the Sudan region thought it was a missle attack? This one was low velocity (13 km/s) and shallow entrance angle (20°)

[justcat1234]

This clearly shows that if an object that was dangerous was heading for earth, we would not know about it until half a day before it hit. Good to know...

[jeffnogo]

Actually, that isn't necessarily the case.  This object was discovered late because it is very small and faint compared to an object that would have the ability to be seriously dangerous. Those would be much much easier to detect.

[SuperDaveOsbourne]

Great, this guy is promoting the effective spending of billions of dollars to track something that we can't do a damn thing about when and before it hits the Earth.

[spacestevie2]

Lets just say this asteroid impacts over a military installation in Russia or the US and no one knew what it was. What do you think a large explosion or fireball over a military installation like a ICBM launch complex would cause? The Air Force has been tracking these objects for just the reason that an asteroid impact might be mistaken for a nuclear weapon. Someday we might be able to do something about it assuming we invest in a competent space program.