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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 26 > Scientists, scouring the Sudanese desert, catch a shooting star - for the first time

Scientists, scouring the Sudanese desert, catch a shooting star - for the first time

By David Perlman / The Bulletin
March 26, 2009

An asteroid exploded over Sudan’s Nubian desert last year with the force of a small atom bomb and sent a California astronomer and others racing into the rock-strewn sandy wilderness to recover tiny fragments of a space rock.

Now those ancient rocks, fragments of the demolished....

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