It's unsettling that we have no system in place to detect objects of this size. It's time to stop wasting money on pointless pork and use that money to field a detection system for smaller objects like the Chelyabinsk meteoroid. We can detect most planet-killers, but these city-killers are all around us and we can't do a damn thing about it until it's too late.
So out of curiosity, what happens to this donated meteorite? Does it go into a display case in the Oval Office? Does it go into the Smithsonian? Or does it get lumped in with the other gifts the president receives (into some obscure storage room at the State Dept)? Best regards, MikeG -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/GalacticStone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone RSS - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 ------------------------------------------------------------- On 3/25/13, Michael Farmer <m...@meteoriteguy.com> 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 > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
