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Published online 8 October 2008 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news.2008.1158
Updated online: 9 October 2008
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Great balls of fire
Astronomers discover and track incoming asteroid for the first time.
A space rock a few metres across exploded over northern Sudan early in the morning of Tuesday 7 October. The small asteroid mostly disintegrated when it collided with Earth's atmosphere, but fragments may have reached the surface.
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