[meteorite-list] "meteor" now to include "meteorites"?

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:40:31 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <179001.93308.qm_at_web36901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi all -

I don't think so. Period.

That's not what Richard Norton taught in "Rocks from Space".

Will someone here please set the IAU straight on this?

How about operationally, if it hits frei-punkt, its a meteorite, if it leaves a hole in the ground or airbursts with enough force to make it to the ground, its an impacting asteroid or comet fragment.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas


      
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