AW: [meteorite-list] Re: "Bessey Specks"

From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Oct 17 16:57:32 2006
Message-ID: <20061017205730.211290_at_gmx.net>

Martin wrote:

> My linguistic prognosis is, that within 30 years the second component,
> "the speck" will have been disappeared and that we then will say only:
> "A Bessey".

1 Bsy = 0.001 g [CGS] or 0.000 001 kg [SI] respectively ???
Such a mass unit would not do justice to a man of our dear
Dean?s figure (..and importance)! :-)

Alex
Berlin/Germany
Received on Tue 17 Oct 2006 04:57:30 PM PDT