G'day Geoff, Ron & List, As I was reading Ron's post I saw vision on television of the Observatory absolutely destroyed. A sad day. As I write; the current damage stands at 402 homes, 4 people killed and hundreds injured. There has been enormous damage to a lot of property in Canberra and there is still significant risk to remaining property throughout the region. Nothing is safe at the moment and the next 24 hours will be extremely hazardous. Visibility in Melbourne today was down to 100 metres because of smoke from up to hundreds of kilometres away. It's not good at the moment to say the least!
Jeff Kuyken I.M.C.A. #3085 www.meteoritesaustralia.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sad day for astronomy > The fire in Canberra has already claimed four lives and about 400 homes. > The weather forecast in the coming week is not good, continued hot weather > and winds. One of the Deep Space Network tracking stations is located > near Canberra, but thus far I haven't heard of any damages to the facility. > > Ron Baalke > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
