[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

From: Dan Miller <dannyspl12_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:15:17 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKth5kba1JaZBBmOXs6JffWfc7W9FNfHV=xL8Qu6OFrZ9p0cDw_at_mail.gmail.com>

It will get filed with all the other Presidential gifts during his
term and later included in the Obama Presidential library someday.
The library may then donate it to the Smithsonian museum.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:15 PM, 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
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Received on Mon 25 Mar 2013 07:15:17 PM PDT