Peter is best known for his recovery of fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3 in the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan with Sudanese astronomer Muawia Shaddad and his students from the University of Khartoum.

This image shows a thin section of an enstatite chondrite fragment from the asteroid Almahatta Sitta (official name: 2008 TC3). This fragment was observed on 7 October 2008 in the Nubian Desert ...

Peter is also famous for identifying the parent body of the Quadrantid shower, a minor planet called 2003 EH1, and for his recovery of fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3 in the Nubian Desert of northern ...

The fragments were scattered across the Nubian desert of northern Sudan after the asteroid 2008 TC3 exploded 37km above the ground on 7 October 2008. Seti / P Jenniskens / M Shaddad The meteorites ...