Casper gave Hillary a Sikhote-Alin when she was on his block. Not sure that she was supposed to hold a press conference....... Michael Farmer
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Adam Hupe <raremeteori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Knowing our "commander with some teeth" it will be tossed in a drawer and > forgotten about. Didn't Michael Casper give Hillary or Bill Clinton a piece? > I haven't heard anything about that meteorite. I remember Michael Casper > mentioned this apparently unappreciated gift on his website. > > Hopefully it will be appreciated for what it is or passed onto to somebody > who will. > > Adam > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritem...@gmail.com> > To: Michael Farmer <m...@meteoriteguy.com> > Cc: Adam Hupe <raremeteori...@yahoo.com>; Adam > <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:32 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today > > 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 ______________________________________________ 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