Originally posted by OzWeatherman

Originally posted by born²
The nominal orbit given above has 2008 TC3 coming to within one earth
radius around Oct. 7.1. The absolute magnitude indicates that the
object will not survive passage through the atmosphere.

Steve Chesley (JPL) reports that atmospheric entry will occur on 2008
Oct 07 0246 UTC over northern Sudan.

Cheers for that

Good to some sanity still left on ATS

So true my friend. I have been trying unsuccesfully for quite some time to get people to read that myself. Very frustrating when no one is willing to listen, or hear reason.

i really don't think it will make impact either, but are we even sure of the exact size of the object yet??

[edit on 6-10-2008 by adrenochrome]

Originally posted by born²
The nominal orbit given above has 2008 TC3 coming to within one earth
radius around Oct. 7.1. The absolute magnitude indicates that the
object will not survive passage through the atmosphere.

Steve Chesley (JPL) reports that atmospheric entry will occur on 2008
Oct 07 0246 UTC over northern Sudan.

Ive been trying to get people to read that as well buddy. Not many people seem to be willing to acknowlege that. Very frustrating.

I hope you have better luck than I did.

Thats not actually a picture of the object, it just says " like the one seen here " .

Just over an hour left. Anyone else think there could be some serious fear-mongering after this event, for one reason or another? When was the last time something this size came this close to Earth? And I think this might be related to the draconian meteor showers which take place on Oct.7-8, but I don't know that much about that annual event.

Ten minutes remaining people, brace brace!

Not sure if this was mentioned before, did not read the rest of the pages, but I wonder how many other "small" objects do ever get reported in the news?

If this is such a small deal, why bother letting anyone know at all. We have seen videos of fireballs in the sky falling down and disintegrating before, and those were similar if not larger rocks. So why all of a sudden draw attention to this specific event?

Are they gearing us for more reporting on the space rocks in the future? Will this reporting lead to a catastrophic event hitting a populated area, and following it an outcry to do something about it? Are we seeing Von Braun's prediction come true...?

Lots of questions and not many answers...yet.

I hope I got the UTC time conversion to here correct.

So far nothing - well - not quite nothing.
Lots of dogs in the area barking like there's no tomorrow.
Even a rooster joined in...

Beyond that the sky is very clear - a couple of tiny shooting stars but nothing beyond the norm.
I wonder if I'm going to be able to see it from here?

Location Sicily.
Eastern side of Island.

*Going back out to look*...

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[edit on 6-10-2008 by Ferengi]

Thanks OzWeatherman.

Well, ill be in the rain, trying to catch what I can, will post video if anything shows up.

peace

[edit on 6-10-2008 by Ferengi]