[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:41:03 -0700
Message-ID: <063C1244-2D82-4646-98A1-6D0A664253D2_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Didn't you see the videos of people being blown into walls by the shockwave? There are great surveillance videos showing people at the university being thrown against walls and blown down. If it can cave in building, it can sure hurt people.
My hotel lost 25% of the windows and a maid was hospitalized with many glass cuts. Imagine of over Chicago or New York? Thousands likely dead from falling glass alone.
Michael Farmer
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On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:20 PM, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Do you know any details on their injuries? Was the broken back a
> result of falling debris? I imagine flying glass wasn't responsible
> for the spine injury, but I could be wrong. And what about the other
> injuries? I don't recall hearing much about it in the media reports.
> A shame that people are clinging to life in ICU wards as a result of
> this event and we don't hear anything about them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
> PS - if someone dies as a result of injuries sustained from this fall,
> would that be a first in modern times? This makes Ms. Hodges
> Sylacauga wound seem minor in comparison.
>
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> On 3/25/13, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
>> There are still 4 people in critical condition in the hospital there.
>>
>>
>> Michael Farmer
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:11 PM, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks"
>> <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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