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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.

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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.

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

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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

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