RE: Land Side-by-Side Craters, Chad / Almahata Sitta Meteorite

RE: Land Side-by-Side Craters, Chad / Almahata Sitta  Meteorite

In "Land Side-by-Side Craters, Chad" at
http://lists.drizzle.com/pipermail/rockhounds/2012-February/036820.html
Mr. Kramer wrote,

"Wasn't Chad where they found those meteorites
not too long ago? The ones from the observed meteor
strike."

You might be thinking about the Almahata Sitta
Meteorite, which fell in Sudan in 2008. It was the first
one observed and predicted to impact Earth while it
was still in space. When it did fall to Earth, it made a
spectacular fireball. Some articles are:

Almahata Sitta Meteorite Could Come from Triple
Asteroid Mash-Up, ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2011)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007102107.htm

Almahata Sitta, Meteoritical Bulletin Database
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=48915

2008 TC3, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3

Some PDF files

Asteroid 2008 TC3, Almahata Sitta, Nubian desert, Sudan. Talk
http://www.imo.net/imc2010/talks/TerKuile.pdf
http://www.cosmolearning.com/video-lectures/the-impact-and-recovery-of-asteroid-2008-tc3-7493/

Jenniskens, P. and others, 2009, The impact and
recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3. Nature. vol. 458,
no. 7237, pp. 485-488.
http://asima.seti.org/2008TC3/nature07920.pdf
Other papers at http://asima.seti.org/2008TC3/
http://asima.seti.org/2008TC3/

Bichoff, A., and others, 2010, Asteroid 2008 TC3 –
Almahata Sitta: A spectacular breccia containing
many different ureilitic and chondritic lithologies.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science. vol. 45, no. 10-11,
pp. 1638–1656.
http://www.haberer-meteorite.de/www/media/Almahata-MAPS-Bischoff-In-Press.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.2010.45.issue-10-11/issuetoc

Burton, A. S., and others, 2011, Heterogeneous
distributions of amino acids provide evidence of
multiple sources within the Almahata Sitta parent
body, asteroid 2008 TC3. Meteoritics & Planetary
Science. vol. 46, no.11, pp. 1703-1712.
http://0-science.gsfc.nasa.gov.iii-server.ualr.edu/691/analytical/PDF/Burtonetal2011.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01257.x/full

Yours,
Paul H