Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk a "closed" city?

2013-02-16 Thread Wil
At Sat, 16 Feb 2013 Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D passes along a message that he received from a friend: > "About getting on-site ? I am guessing that unless you happened to live right under the fall, you won?t get very close to it now! (Chelyabinsk was for decades a ?closed? city because of all the n

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk a "closed" city?

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Farmer
It is a good thing the meteorites fell 200km away:) Sent from my iPhone On Feb 15, 2013, at 7:41 PM, "Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D." wrote: > Received from a friend: > > "About getting on-site – I am guessing that unless you happened to live right > under the > fall, you won’t get very close to i

[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk a "closed" city?

2013-02-15 Thread Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D.
Received from a friend: "About getting on-site – I am guessing that unless you happened to live right under the fall, you won’t get very close to it now! (Chelyabinsk was for decades a “closed” city because of all the nuclear and other sensitive installations. Also the most polluted city in