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Meteosat-8 Rapid Scan captures asteroid impact

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On 7 October, asteroid 2008 TC3 hit Earth and exploded in the atmosphere over northern Sudan. Amazingly, the Meteosat-8 Rapid Scanning Service managed to capture the impact.

There was a spectacular show in the sky early Tuesday morning when a small asteroid entered the earth's atmosphere, releasing a huge amount of light and energy before exploding. This brief flash was captured by Meteosat-8 in Rapid Scan Service, as the image to the left shows. (IR3.9 channel, 7 October 2008 at 02:45:47 UTC).

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