Small Asteriod collision with Earth tonight

Just got this off the wire, it looks very interesting!

Keith..

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From: "Michel Bonnardeau" <arzelier1@free.fr>
To: "AAVSO-DIS" <aavso-discussion@mira.aavso.org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 8:34 PM
Subject: [AAVSO-DIS] Tiny asteroid collision with Earth tonight


>A very small H=30.4 (diameter= ~2 meter) asteroid has just been discovered.
> And it is going to enter Earth atmosphere on 7 Oct 2008 at 0246 UTC over
> northern Sudan.
> See: www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html

Very interesting alright Keith. Dave MacDonald has been about an hour and a half ahead of you here:

www.irishastronomy.org/component/fireboa...ew&catid=42&id=73446



Seanie.