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On 6 October 2008 astronomers spotted a small asteroid 19 hours before impact and predicted where it would fall. It exploded over the Nubian Desert in northern Sudan. Students and staff of the University of Khartoum walked the desert and recovered about 600 fragments, named Almahata Sitta.
On 2 June 2018 a telescope in Arizona found a small asteroid eight hours before it struck Earth. It burned up over Botswana, and searchers in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve found pieces of it. Only the third asteroid ever seen before impact.
A stony meteorite hit the Altiplano near Lake Titicaca and blasted a water-filled crater. Villagers who went to look fell ill. Peruvian officials and scientists confirmed the impact; the illness is usually put down to arsenic-rich groundwater vapour and anxiety.
A 20-metre asteroid exploded over the southern Urals, brighter than the Sun. The shock wave blew out windows in six cities and injured about 1,500 people, mostly from flying glass. Dashcams recorded it from every angle.
A brilliant fireball over the Yukon and northern British Columbia dropped fragments onto a frozen lake. A local man collected them without thawing them, preserving one of the most primitive and organic-rich meteorites known.
A fireball over the San Francisco Bay Area on 17 October 2012 was caught by NASA-supported sky cameras, the fall zone was predicted over Novato, and three days later a resident found a black stone after remembering a bang on her roof.
On a Friday evening in October 1992 a fireball crossed several eastern states while football crowds filmed it, then a 12 kg stone punched through the trunk of a parked Chevrolet in Peekskill, New York. It became the best-filmed meteorite fall of its time.
At 3:56 a.m. on June 2, 2016, a fireball lit up the Southwest, and sonic booms were heard across the Phoenix area. More than 400 people reported it. It wasn't a launch or a re-entry. Radar tracked falling stones, and fifteen meteorites were recovered. They were named Dishchii'bikoh.
