[meteorite-list] How big was the Chelyabinsk meteoroid?

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 23:42:37 +0100
Message-ID: <43B3FEC9C68E494F878F4DD889570545_at_thinkcentre>

Hi Nick,

I live in an old castle - not a very big one - and I guess: it's more or
less this castle which began the fiery passage through the atmosphere:
http://schloesserrundschau.de/bawue/schloesser/images/schloesser/biberach/biberach001.JPG

Best regards
Matthias


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D." <nick.gessler at duke.edu>
To: "Meteorite Central" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 11:31 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] How big was the Chelyabinsk meteoroid?


> It might be hard to imagine what a 55-foot diameter ball or rock would
> look like.
> I searched Google Images for a 50-foot anything, and came up with this,
> which seemed fitting:
> https://web.duke.edu/isis/gessler/meteorites/chelyabinsk.htm
>
> ;-)
> Nick
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