[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:11:36 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW-Hn+h_HGY7tgONDMW0SkO_JHh2q2a4QJyYhTKhKzV+dQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Has there been any update on the woman who suffered a broken back from
the event?



On 3/25/13, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
> I was just in Chelyabinsk, a city under emergency for the last month, -20
> and tens of thousands of windows blown out, not only glass, but entire walls
> of many buildings caved in, entire buildings collapsed, and more than 1500
> wounded, some still in the hospital, and that was just a meteorite passing
> overhead 30 miles high.
> Are you telling me that those hundreds of thousands of stones, doubtless
> many weighing tons, would not have killed thousands or destroyed hundreds of
> buildings if it had directly impacted the city at a high angle? I think the
> damage would have been catastrophic and the death toll in the thousands.
>
>
> Michael Farmer
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 6:08 PM, Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>> It's extremely doubtful that this body could have done all that much more
>> damage. It simply wasn't big enough, or strong enough. A little steeper
>> (or just as likely, as little shallower), a little earlier or later,
>> probably wouldn't have made much difference.
>>
>> While I'd love to see a constellation of IR space telescopes looking for
>> asteroids in this size range, realistically there's probably nothing we
>> could do if we found one, and as a matter of public policy, the money
>> might well be considered poorly spent.
>>
>> The reality is that the actual risk to human life and property from small
>> asteroids is absurdly small compared to a large number of other things
>> that we actually have some control over.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> *******************************
>> Chris L Peterson
>> Cloudbait Observatory
>> http://www.cloudbait.com
>>
>> On 3/25/2013 3:15 PM, Michael Farmer 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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