2008  TC3

A live light curve of asteroid 2008 CU3, an estimated 5-m diameter object, as it plunges towards the Earth.
The data is taken from observations by Ramón Naves & Montse Campàs (MPC 213), Gustavo Muler (MPC J47), Juan Antonio Henríquez (J51) and Rafael Benavides (MPC J53). Follow the asteroid as it brightens before entering the atmosphere and - presumably - breaking up over Northern Sudan around 02:45UT on October 7th.

 

Live light curve of the approach from Spanish observers

2008 TC3 Parallax

Images

THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2489 2008 Oct 07

Other information

MPEC

Analysis

The light curve of 2008TC3