Really interesting video. I did notice that when the major
flashes/bursts/explosions of the meteorite ends, it takes aproxamentally 11
seconds for the shock wave to hit. Any geniuses out there able to get a
rough idea how far or high in the sky the meteorite was when it exploded?
Sincerely
Don Merchant
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From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritem...@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Farmer" <m...@meteoriteguy.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today
Has there been any update on the woman who suffered a broken back from
the event?
On 3/25/13, Michael Farmer <m...@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 <c...@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
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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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