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

 NASA finds extra-terrestrial amino-acids in Sudan meteorites

Life Ingredients Found in Superhot Meteorites
National Geographic by Andrew Fazekas, Dec. 20, 2010‎
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101220-asteroid-meteorite-life-space-science/

NASA discovers amino acids on an 'impossible' meteorite
Wired.co.uk by Mark Brown, Dec. 22, 2010‎
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-12/22/amino-acids-meteorite

Meteorite Holds Amino Acid Surprise
Discovery News by Ron Cowen, Dec. 21, 2010‎
http://news.discovery.com/space/meteorite-amino-acids-101221.html

The paper is:

Glavin, D. P., A. D. Aubrey, M. P.  Callanhan, J.P. Dworkin, 
J. E. Elsila, E. T. Parker, J. L. Bada, P. Jenniskens, and 
M. H. Shaddad, 2010, JOURNAL TOOLS Extraterrestrial 
amino acids in the Almahata Sitta meteorite. Article first
published online: 13 DEC 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01094.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01094.x/abstract

The paper is in "Special Issue: 2008 TC3 and Almahata Sitta" 
of Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The table of contents is at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291945-5100/homepage/custom_copy.htm 

Happy Holidays,

Paul H.