Also known as 2008 TC(3), 2008 TC 3, 8TA9D69
small asteroid which entered Earth's atmosphere in October 2008
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2008 TC3 was an 80-tonne (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 10.5 kilograms (23.1 lb), were recovered;
many of these belonged to a rare type known as ureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).