[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:32:13 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW87UD-KNAQkYKFN0pr=rp115BZBNNJs3wj=54dAfDdvAQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

It's unsettling that we have no system in place to detect objects of
this size. It's time to stop wasting money on pointless pork and use
that money to field a detection system for smaller objects like the
Chelyabinsk meteoroid. We can detect most planet-killers, but these
city-killers are all around us and we can't do a damn thing about it
until it's too late.

So out of curiosity, what happens to this donated meteorite? Does it
go into a display case in the Oval Office? Does it go into the
Smithsonian? Or does it get lumped in with the other gifts the
president receives (into some obscure storage room at the State Dept)?

Best regards,

MikeG

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------
Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone
Twitter - http://twitter.com/GalacticStone
Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone
RSS - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516
-------------------------------------------------------------
On 3/25/13, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
> Congratulations to Dante Lauretta of UOfA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and
> Osiris-Rex mission, who presented a piece of Chelyabinsk that I donated, to
> President Obama and Congress today while there to discuss the threat of
> asteroid impact.
>
> Chelyabinsk was almost a "City Killer" as Richard Kowalski told me
> yesterday, had it come in a few second earlier and steeper angle, a million
> people in Chelyabinsk would likely be dead today.
> Time to take meteorites serious.
>
> Michael Farmer
> ______________________________________________
>
> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>

Received on Mon 25 Mar 2013 05:32:13 PM PDT