[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

[Galactic Stone & Ironworks]

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
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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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