[meteorite-list] Is this oriented?

From: Steve Dunklee <steve.dunklee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 02:54:23 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <1362480863.17459.YahooMailClassic_at_web122605.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

I have been collecting meteorites with wings. realy hard to find they are. the meteorite has to be spinning very fast to ablate a wing. they usualy end up looking like a bent up boat propeller.
Cheers
Steve

--- On Tue, 3/5/13, Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:

> From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Is this oriented?
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 8:19 AM
> Hi Don and List,
>
> Some years ago someone (I think it was Jim Strope) coined
> the word
> "flight-marked" as opposed to flight oriented" and you might
> thus call
> your specimen "flight-marked" if it fits into that
> "category" unless it
> meets all the requirements Mike Farmer mentioned in his
> post!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
>
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