[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

[Michael Farmer]

There are still 4 people in critical condition in the hospital there.


Michael Farmer

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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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