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, <valpar...@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:). ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
