2008 TC3

2008 TC3 was an 80-tonne, 4. 1-meter diameter asteroid that entered Earth’s atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 10. 5 kilograms, were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known as ureilites.