Actually is is almost 1.5 minute to two minutes on most Clocks. Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:31 PM, "Don Merchant" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" > <[email protected]> > To: "Michael Farmer" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >>>> Meteorite-list mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >>> ______________________________________________ >>> >>> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >>> Meteorite-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
