[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

[Michael Farmer]

Actually is is almost 1.5 minute to two minutes on most
Clocks.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:31 PM, "Don Merchant" <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> Really interesting video. I did notice that when the major flashes/bursts/explosions of the meteorite ends, it takes aproxamentally 11 seconds for the shock wave to hit. Any geniuses out there able to get a rough idea how far or high in the sky the meteorite was when it exploded?
> Sincerely
> Don Merchant
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
> To: "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 9:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today
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> 
>> 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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