NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Date: Wed. March 25
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific
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A replay of the teleconference will be available until May 1 by dialing 888-403-4660.

Panelists:
Peter Jenniskens, meteor astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
Steve Chesley, scientist in NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Michael Zolensky, cosmic mineralogist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
Lucy McFadden, professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park

Peter Jenniskens (pronounced YEN-nis-kus)
Image 1A

Infrared image taken by the Meteosat 8 satellite of asteroid 2008 TC3 exploding. Image courtesy: EUMESTAT
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Image 1B

Image taken by a cellphone of the contrail left by 2008 TC3 during its decent. Image courtesy: Shaddad
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Image 1C

University of Khartoum students and staff prepare to search for meteorite remnants
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Image 1D

The Nubian desert
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Image 1E

A typical example of a meteorite remnant linked to asteroid 2008 TC3, with a dark scruffy texture.
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Image 1F
Muawia Shaddad of the University of Khartoum, Sudan and NASA meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens join students of the University of Khartoum at the location of one of the larger finds from the first search campaign, Dec. 8, 2008.

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Steve Chesley
Image 2A

Telescope of the Catalina Sky Survey. Image courtesy: NASA/CSS
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Image 2B
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Detecting asteroid 2008 TC3 in space.

Image 2C

Impact trajectory of asteroid 2008 TC3.

Image 2D

This space-based view of the Nubian Desert shows altitude in kilometers (in white circles) and meteor locations in red. Image courtesy NASA Ames/SETI/JPL | ›  Full resolution

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Mike Zolensky
Image 3A

Meteorite sample

Image 3B

Meteorite sample linked to asteroid TC3
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Image 3C

Electron views of meteorite samples
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Image 3D

Asteroid types
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Lucy McFadden
Image 4A

Meteorite types
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Near-Earth asteroids

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Animation of Near-Earth objects that approached within 20 million kilometers (12.4 million miles) of Earth between the dates of July 2007 and June 2008. Image courtesy: IAU/Harvard/MPC

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Supplemental Images
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Image 5B

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