interesting story to follow over the long haul and see just what was in that meteorite.

I like to imagine that there is some meteor metal in the spoon I am eating with.

...they had a couple of daggers that had been made out of meteorites. There were things in that museum that I saw that I would have never imagined A) Would not have been lost to history or B) I never imagined the hands of men could create. Like, oh, crap, off the top of my head, like an exquisitely gilded necklace of hummingbird heads from the 1860's. Pictures of the thing don't do it justice.

Some of the meteorite daggers they had were named. Like, Excalibur style, each with some wild backstory. Crazy shit.

PB

That is what my google searches have come up with so far: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/space/meteorites-dust/

You would love the Cleveland Museum of Art for a similar collection Medieval Art and the Faberge collection come to mind: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/collections

PB

they have a fantastic art and theater district. And don't get me started on the downtown library.
On edit: I forgot about the world class orchestra.

They worked the iron cold. They also discovered the limits on how much to could work it until it would break or shatter. Their breakthrough, their technological discovery was when they discovered if they heated the iron piece they had been working, it released tensions, normalizing it, and found they could continue working the iron cold.

At least that's what the Inuit's discovered, I don't know about ancient humans

Maybe I am thinking of wrought iron from rich ores.

Most likely iron if it was that small and made it to the surface.

And glaziers.

I imagine their staff are racking up some overtime right about now...

the one that passed that afternoon. Did NASA know about this; why weren't we warned?

Most tabs being kept on objects are either space junk in Earth orbit - which is quite nearby and completely preditable in their movements - or much larger objects than the one that went off over Russia, which was also moving far faster than orbital debris.

A handful of pieces like this come down somewhere in the world every year, usually over the ocean. They're too small to see coming without a lot of time and equipment that isn't budgeted for right now; we're barely able to keep tabs on bigger objects.

I just read was that the energy yield of the explosion caused by this bolide was on the order of 500 kilotons.

That would wipe out a city if it detonated lower in the atmosphere, say around half a mile up.

Chelyabinsk dodged a bullet.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/16/16985690-estimates-raised-for-nuclear-sized-asteroid-blast-that-hit-russia?lite

If it had hit several hours later, it would have been at a much steeper angle and more likely to penetrate into the lower atmosphere, or hit the ground. Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc. would have been at risk.

Because it came out of the day sky and couldn't be seen meaning it had looped around the sun and was returning to deep space. The rock we were warned about was coming from deep space and heading toward the sun because it was in the night sky. This piece of rock was in the passing lane going roughly 100,000 mph and passing Earth going a measly 66,000 mph, but it got too close and crashed.