[meteorite-list] "Find", "Fall" Terminology

From: Greg Hupé <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:58:49 -0500
Message-ID: <1975B197C91E4E1F8FDBA78D72B59C68_at_Gregor>

I find that I prefer 'fall' and 'find' as well, straight to the point. Now I
better get back to work before I fall behind any more!! ;-)

Best Regards,
Greg

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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Webb
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 5:51 PM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] "Find", "Fall" Terminology

All,
The terms "find" and "fall" are concise and understood by everyone in the
meteorite community. I don't see the need to introduce terms that may lead
to more ambiguity. For example: if "find" is changed to "unobserved fall"
in describing a meteorite it could possibly be an outright false statement
since it could have been observed by many people but never reported or
recorded. Also, do we include other animals when we refer to "observed"?
Who knows who or what observed one of those that we call "find", so let's
just leave it at that and continue to call it a "find". The term "fall" as
it is now used means that we have a pretty good record that someone actually
saw it streak through the atmosphere and recoveries were soon made in the
projected fall area. In some cases people have witnessed the actual impact
or impacts as they happened but this is not required to call it a fall.
Occasionally it may be years before a witnessed event produces
recovered meteorites but if we know the fall area we can tie it to the event
and still call it a probable fall and end up using just "fall" with a fairly
high degree of accuracy.
For practicality and to tie in with what has been used and understood for
years, I think we should continue to use the terms "find" and "fall".
My best,
Thomas

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