Other information
- The following potentially confirming report comes from Jacob Kuiper, General Aviation meteorologist at the National Weather Service in the Netherlands: "Half an hour before the predicted impact of asteroid 2008 TC3, I informed an official of Air-France-KLM at Amsterdam airport about the possibility that crews of their airliners in the vicinity of impact would have a chance to see a fireball. And it was a success! I have received confirmation that a KLM airliner, roughly 750 nautical miles southwest of the predicted atmospheric impact position, has observed a short flash just before the expected impact time 0246 UTC. Because of the distance it was not a very large phenomenon, but still a confirmation that some bright meteor has been seen in the predicted direction. Projected on an infrared satellite-image of Meteosat-7 of 0300 UTC, I have indicated the position of the plane (+) and the predicted impact area in Sudan (0)."
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Impact of Asteroid 2008 TC3 Confirmed
Don Yeomans
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office October 7, 2008 Confirmation has
been received that the asteroid impact fireball occurred at the predicted time
and place. The energy recorded was estimated to be 0.9 to 1.0 kT of TNT and
the time of detection was 02:45:45 on October 7 (Greenwich Standard Time).
More details on this detection will be forthcoming. An addition confirmation
was apparently reported by a KLM airliner (see:
http://www.spacewea