(meteorobs) Meteorites on The Ground! (Was: To Dirk)

[Wayne Hally]

"2008 TC3 was a meteoroid 2 to 5 meters (7 to 16 ft) in diameter and
weighting 80 tons that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008, at
02:46 UTC (05:46 local time). The meteoroid was notable as the first such
body to be observed and tracked prior to reaching Earth. It exploded an
estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. A search
of the impact zone that began on December 2008 turned up 10.5 kilograms (23
lb) of meteorites in 600 fragments, which are surviving pieces of the
meteoroid. The meteorites are of a rare type known as ureilites."

>From Wiki, references there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3