[meteorite-list] It's from the ashtray belt!

From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:07:02 -0400
Message-ID: <CEDB3DABA046459EBB43265A95F55687_at_ET>

Any editor with half a brain would have caught and corrected this.


Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
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My guess is autocorrect gone horribly wrong.

Peter


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Sterling
K. Webb
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:17 PM
To: Ed Deckert; Jimski47 at aol.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] It's from the ashtray belt!

List, Ed, Jim,

The phrase "ashtray belt" can be found in all follow-on news stories like
this one:
http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/salinas/Stunning-meteor-showers-
wow-Central-Coast-sky-watchers/-/5738906/17042872/-/dia4eb/-/index.html

This is because it originally appeared in the first Associated Press story.
It was shortly thereafter corrected, but every source that used that AP item
before the correction has the "ashtray belt" quote in it.

It was a reporter's mishearing the phrase "asteroid belt" that gave rise to
it, I presume, but how long will the story stick to Jonathan Braidman, "an
astronomer at Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center"?

He'll be living in the Ashtray Belt for a heck of a long time...


Sterling K. Webb
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