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Almahata Sitta meteorite

The Almahata Sitta is the first meteorite found from predicted asteroid hit. History of the Almahata Sitta meteorite: The Asteroid 2008 TC3 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, found in Sudan. On 7 October 2008, the asteroid 2008 TC3 entered the Earth’s atmosphere, exploded at 37km altitude, and created a strewn field of stones, now known as the Almahata Sitta meteorite, in the Sudan desert This brecciated meteorite is temporaly classified as an anomalous Ureilite, but the study continues.

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