[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

From: John Cabassi <john_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:11:19 -0800
Message-ID: <CAFBTX4ww=qh3hKpVvGSGhzV7dS2ceGCdV2Hx4y5wUcyeAH9HaA_at_mail.gmail.com>

I'm quite happy with Find and Fall, been using that since I first
started and I see no reason to change. Besides I'm getting too old for
changes ;-)

Cheers
John

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
>
> Noit makes perfect sense actually, is it a fall or a find. I spoke to
> Garvie yesterday, who made very clear there are only two terms, fall or
> find.
> You would make a great politician, mincing words until no logic is left to
> find.
> An old meteorite found in a field was found, thus a find.
> been that way for centuries, no need to change it now.
>
> Michael Farmer
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 5, 2013, at 9:30 AM, <valparint at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > The Meteoritical Bulletin Database uses the following terminology:
> >
> > Observed fall: No
> >
> > Does that disturb you?
> >
> > Paul Swartz
> >
> >> I find this new attempt to change terminology disturbing. I have
> >> hundreds of old catalogs from the top museums and dealers from more than 200
> >> years ago till today, all of them list falls and finds. None of them discuss
> >> unobserved falls as an acceptable alternative.
> >> Are we really ready to just accept anything thrown out there, and watch
> >> as all manner of BS is used to discredit hundreds of years of accepted
> >> terminology?
> >> My private collection focuses on witnessed falls, with date and time
> >> and science to back it up.
> >> I am not interested in another group which would include every
> >> meteorite ever to have fallen, since they did actually all fall at some
> >> point.
> >> Well, I guess Anne can delete her birthday fall calendar page since now
> >> we can simply put every NWA on any date you choose to believe it might have
> >> possibly fallen:).
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