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Date Time Asteroid that hit Botswana in 2018 likely came from Vesta On June 2, 2018, a small asteroid was discovered on an impact trajectory with Earth. Eight hours later, a video camera in South Africa recorded a bright fireball over Botswana. An international team of researchers have now published their findings in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science after they tracked down the surviving meteorites deep inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in central Botswana. “Combining the observations of the small asteroid in space with information gleaned from the meteorites shows it likely came from Vesta, second largest asteroid in our Solar System and target of NASA’s DAWN mission”, said lead author and meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. ....
The Stockton R-I school board met in regular session on Wednesday, Dec. 16, with a full agenda on their plate. During R-I superintendent Doug Crawfordâs report, he said the district is using a modified quarantine model for COVID-19. Crawford added that the Centers for Disease Control released a 10-day quarantine guidance due to COVID-19 exposure; however, Cedar County has not yet had a meeting to decide on following this guidance yet, so the district is still following the 14-day quarantine guidance. âBeyond that, nothing has really changed,â Crawford said. The board then went on to review evaluation of programs with written reports offered by science, social studies, mathematics and English-Language Arts. ....