[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

[Michael Farmer]

Casper gave Hillary a Sikhote-Alin
when she was on his block.
Not sure that she was supposed to hold a press conference.......
Michael Farmer

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On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:12 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.
> 
> 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)?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 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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