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Re: When Does a Meteorite become a Meteorite?
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- Subject: Re: When Does a Meteorite become a Meteorite?
- From: Tom Randall <trandall@idsi.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:29:08 -0400
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At 02:34 PM 9/10/99 EDT, you wrote:
>
>richard>> I prefer meteoroid, meteor,
>meteorite for simplicity's sake.<<
>
>I do to....but I'm questioning the notion as to just when one should call a
>meteorite, a meteorite when the meteoroid and meteor definitions no longer
>applies.
>geozay
I've always though of it this way (for whatever it's worth),
It's a meteoroid while in space, while visible upon entry a meteor, dark
flight it reverts to a meteoroid (after all, the only differance is the new
fusion crust right?) then upon ground strike a meteorite. Or Maybe until
it's found it's still a meteoroid. Once found we call them meteorites.
How that?
Regards,
Tom Randall
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