[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:49:55 -0700
Message-ID: <DBB85F89-A1C4-4E26-B358-72130AE3D4C1_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Liveleak and YouTube.
Google Chelyabinsk university and meteorite and you will see :)

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:48 PM, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't see those videos. How the heck did I miss those? I did see
> alot of videos of the booms, broken glass, and the aftermath, but I
> didn't see any of people being blown around. Got a link to those? I
> wanna see those, even though I feel a little creepy wanting to watch
> that - the idea of people being hurt is terrible to me, but it's like
> a trainwreck and I wanna see.
>
> I did think about how the Russians in some of the videos seemed pretty
> nonchalant about the explosions. I think people here in the US would
> have been crapping themselves. No offense to the good ole USA, but
> the Russians are a little harder to scare.
>
> I hope I never see something like this first-hand. I admit, I would
> need to change my pants afterwards, if I survived.
>
> We really need to get some kind of detection network up and running,
> and then put together a viable plan of action if we ever need to
> interdict one of these objects on it's way to Earth again.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
> On 3/25/13, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
>> Didn't you see the videos of people being blown into walls by the shockwave?
>> There are great surveillance videos showing people at the university being
>> thrown against walls and blown down. If it can cave in building, it can sure
>> hurt people.
>> My hotel lost 25% of the windows and a maid was hospitalized with many glass
>> cuts. Imagine of over Chicago or New York? Thousands likely dead from
>> falling glass alone.
>> Michael Farmer
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:20 PM, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks"
>> <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
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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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