[meteorite-list] Vernacular of "Meteorite"

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:02:24 -0600
Message-ID: <50325180.8010907_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

They might reasonably call it an anti-meteoroid shelter, but the fact
is, "meteorite" is not well enough defined to say that once a meteoroid
impacts an object in space, it can't be called a meteorite. I don't have
a problem with the usage in the article. Meteoroid and meteorite are
reasonably interchangeable in this context; the good thing is that they
didn't call it an anti-meteor shelter.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 8/20/2012 8:54 AM, Pete Pete wrote:
>
> Hi, all,
>
> I don't recall this being discussed here before and hopefully I'm not being too anal, but is the definition of "meteorite" evolving, or is it being used improperly here (and frequently in the past when referring to the ISS and these shields).
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>
>
> http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/08/20/russian_cosmonauts_to_install_anti-meteorite_shelter_on_iss_17508.html
> http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/08/20/russian_cosmonauts_to_install_anti-meteorite_shelter_on_iss_17508.html
>
> Russian cosmonauts to install anti-meteorite shelter on ISS
Received on Mon 20 Aug 2012 11:02:24 AM PDT