[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:38:37 -0400
Message-ID: <CALpO9HcHKGN4Ssums2bZRrQQ6gh42sOshspS5KiVO8SGpih2=A_at_mail.gmail.com>

Most likely it'll be archived along with the tens of thousands of
other gifts Presidents usually receive.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/gifts.html

-Yinan

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Knowing our "commander with some teeth" it will be tossed in a drawer and forgotten about. Didn't Michael Casper give Hillary or Bill Clinton a piece? I haven't heard anything about that meteorite. I remember Michael Casper mentioned this apparently unappreciated gift on his website.
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> Hopefully it will be appreciated for what it is or passed onto to somebody who will.
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> Adam
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
> To: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> Cc: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>; Adam <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today
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> 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.
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> 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)?
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> Best regards,
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> MikeG
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> 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.
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>> 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
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