[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:48:24 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW87Z2SGu0K9mpiw7iLRMuVLraUcM3wSkvEanAy2ncY-Lw_at_mail.gmail.com>

I didn't see those videos. How the heck did I miss those? I did see
alot of videos of the booms, broken glass, and the aftermath, but I
didn't see any of people being blown around. Got a link to those? I
wanna see those, even though I feel a little creepy wanting to watch
that - the idea of people being hurt is terrible to me, but it's like
a trainwreck and I wanna see.

I did think about how the Russians in some of the videos seemed pretty
nonchalant about the explosions. I think people here in the US would
have been crapping themselves. No offense to the good ole USA, but
the Russians are a little harder to scare.

I hope I never see something like this first-hand. I admit, I would
need to change my pants afterwards, if I survived.

We really need to get some kind of detection network up and running,
and then put together a viable plan of action if we ever need to
interdict one of these objects on it's way to Earth again.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 3/25/13, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
> 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
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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