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The Impact and Recovery of Asteroid 2008 TC3.\nNASA detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth. The Near-Earth Object Observation Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers, characterizes and computes trajectories for these objects to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. \n\n

Live Chat With NASA's Asteroid Trackers: The live event will air on the "NASAJPL" channel available on Ustream TV at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl on March 25 at 4:30 p.m. PDT (7:30 p.m. EDT and 23:30 UTC).

For more information about 2008 TC3 event see also: http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2009/02/2008-tc3-fragments-recovered.html

Asteroid 2008 TC3 hit the scene - literally? This was the first asteroid that was predicted --and predicted correctly -- to to impact the Earth

Article appeared on 26 March 2009 on the weekly Journal of Science "Nature". Here You can read only the abstract. To read the full text, a Nature online subscription is required.

When an asteroid was spotted heading towards our planet last October, researchers rushed to document a cosmic impact from start to finish for the first time.