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Re: When it's a rock! (was, "RE: When Does a Meteorite become a Meteorite?")
- To: GeoZay@aol.com
- Subject: Re: When it's a rock! (was, "RE: When Does a Meteorite become a Meteorite?")
- From: Michael Blood <mblood@access1.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:12:22 -0800
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>When it's a piece of space
>junk coming through the atmosphere making the light what do we call
>it?
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The liturature, AS A WHOLE has ALWAYS been consistant: A metoeroid
prior to hitting the earth (even when it is producing light passing
through the atmosphere, even when it is in its "dark phase" etc.) and
the light phenomenon is a meteor. When it arrives on earth, it is a
meteorite - until then, it is a meteoroid. Yes, I KNOW an isolated
comment here and there in the liturature has left room (just a teeny
crack) through which all of this questioning of terms has squeezed.
I am confused. The terms have always been clear and consisatant - there
IS NO DARK PHASE - any more than there is a "PRE LIGHT PHASE."
Asteroid
Meteoroid
(meteor - a light phenomenon)
Meteorite
What is there NOT to get?
Best wishes, Michael
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