Meteoritics & Planetary Science 1–33 (2010) doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01116.x The recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3 Muawia H. SHADDAD1, Peter JENNISKENS2*, Diyaa NUMAN1, Ayman M. KUDODA1, Saadia ELSIR3, Ihab F. RIYAD1, Awad Elkareem ALI4, Mohammed ALAMEEN1, Nada M. ALAMEEN1, Omer EID1, Ahmed T. OSMAN1, Mohamed I. AbuBAKER1, Mohamed YOUSIF1, Steven R. CHESLEY5, Paul W. CHODAS5, Jim ALBERS2, Wayne N. EDWARDS6,7, Peter G. BROWN6, Jacob KUIPER8, and Jon M. FRIEDRICH9,10 1Department of Physics, University of Khartoum, P.O. Box 321, Khartoum 11115, Sudan 2SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA 3Department of Physics, Juba University, P.O. Box 321, Khartoum 11115, Juba, Sudan 4Department of Chemistry, University of Khartoum, P.O. Box 321, Khartoum 11115, Sudan 5Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA 6Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada 7Canadian Hazards Information Service, Natural Resources Canada, 7 Observatory Crescent Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0Y3, Canada 8Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Wilhelminalaan 10, 3732 GK De Bilt, The Netherlands 9Department of Chemistry, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York 10458, USA 10Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, New York 10025, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail:
[email protected] (Received 25 January 2010; revision accepted 17 September 2010) Abstract–On October 7, 2008, asteroid 2008 TC3 impacted Earth and fragmented at 37 km altitude above the Nubian Desert in northern Sudan. The area surrounding the asteroid’s approach path was searched, resulting in the first recovery of meteorites from an asteroid observed in space.