Hi all - So far, no fatalities, and though we have not heard as the severity of the injuries, they appear to be from glass shards, and treatable. Thus I tend to think of this as a low cost warning, and as something of a blessing.
My assumption is that money from fragment sales will go to a relief fund. Given the ground effects, this one must have been pretty friable with a detonation at a higher altitude than average. "Great Job you're doing there, Brownie." "There have never been any cases of meteorites breaking up at such a low level over Russia before," said Yuri Burenko, head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Emergencies Ministry. I know there are some Siberian separatists, but last I heard Siberia was still part of the Russian Federation. E.P. Grondine Man and Impact in the Americas ______________________________________________ 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
