Asteroid 2008TC was the first to ever be predicted to hit the Earth, and thus observed by many techniques. I personally saw it streak through the atmosphere on it's way to crashing south of Egypt, while I was in Cyprus. I cam across and amazing little image in the IR from Meteosat. The flash in the image was the IR spike as the asteroid (about 80 tons) blew up high in the atmosphere. Some of the debris has been recovered from the Sahara. - HLG
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