An asteroid (2008TC3) approximately 10 ft across is due to impact Earth's atmosphere over North Sudan tonight at approx 02.46GMT (that sounds precise to me but I guess these things can alter course).According to reports.... "the meteor it produces is likely to be spectacular. The rock will release about 1 kiloton of energy in the atmosphere – the equivalent of a low-energy nuclear bomb"
You can read the story here. I just heard about it through a news alert from Sky and Telescope.
This really is breaking news, only two mentions on Google News as I write so by the time you read this it may either have broken up in the atmosphere or hit the sea or ground.
Although small and unlikely to do any severe damage, this is intriguing when you look at the ACG (astromaps). If there had been more advance warning you can only imagine the chatter on the Doomsday sites. The astro map at the top is in Celestial mode and shows Pluto IC through Sudan. The one below is Geodetic coordinates and shows Mars IC! Incredible symbolism for an asteroid releasing so much energy.
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