[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

From: hall at meteorhall.com <hall_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 21:05:02 -0500
Message-ID: <5b988341c6a41430c0ecfddd650b8297.squirrel_at_emailmg.ipage.com>

The last time I wasted half a dozen bytes was on a stale donut at a
restaurant in Hanksville, Utah.
Cheers, Fred Hall
PS: Hanksville is a great place to hunt for rocks and the Mars Society
station is just a few miles away.
>
> How about we compress it further and assign
>
> 0 for unobserved fall
> and
> 1 for observed fall?
>
> We could then use a flag and define them with a single bit, a logic
> state of false for unobserved and true for observed?
>
> Or a null state for unobserved and true for observed?
>
> Substantially more efficient than the system described -- You're
> wasting almost half a dozen bytes!
>
> ;-)
>
> --- Jodie
>
> Friday, January 4, 2013, 5:12:45 PM, you wrote:
>
>> An "unobserved fall" is two words to describe the one word that has
>> been used for a century, "Find". The one word "Find" is good enough for
>> the Catalogue of Meteorites, it was good enough for Harvey Nininger,
>> and it is what I shall always use. Keep it concise.
>> Regards, Fred Hall
>
>
>
>> That would make sense for say New Orleans, where a stone went through a
>>> house and no one in their right mind would suggest that it did not fall
>>> at
>>> that time say between 8 am and 4 pm when there was no hole in the
>>> house,
>>> yet it was not seen to fall.
>>> An old rock found in a field does not suggest anything about fall date.
>>> So
>>> it is a find, something never really argued against until now?
>>> It has crust which can suggest it is not thousands of years old, most
>>> of
>>> our Springwater meteorites have black and blue crust but nevertheless
>>> it
>>> is a find.
>>> Michael Farmer
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jan 4, 2013, at 10:28 AM, <valparint at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> An "unobserved fall" is, well, a fall that was not observed, in
>>>> contradistinction to a fall that was observed. The terminology of the
>>>> Meteoritical Bulletin Database is "Observed fall: no".
>>>>
>>>> The information being conveyed is NOT that the meteorite fell but that
>>>> the fall was not observed.
>>>>
>>>> In general, the questions about falling and finding are:
>>>>
>>>> 1) was the fall observed?
>>>> 2) if so, when was it observed?
>>>> 3) if not, is there any guesstimate of when it fell?
>>>> 4) regardless of weather it was observed or not, when was it actually
>>>> found?
>>>>
>>>> Paul Swartz
>>>> MPOD webmaster
>>>>
>>>>> What is an "unobserved fall"? Every meteorite fell at some point. I
>>>>> have thousands of unobserved falls in my collection.
>>>>> Michael Farmer
>>>>>
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> --
> Best regards,
> Jodie mailto:spacerocks at spaceballoon.org
>
>
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