Greetings Listoids
So so sorry to have to break anyone's ego-centrality but the terminology used in the "Met Bulletin" is foremost and primarily for benefit of science and the meteorite hobbyist is secondary. It must be emotionally discomforting for those trans-reality, die-hard fanatics in the world of meteorite bravado that the Meteoritical Bulletin remains a scientific venue--not a "Who Is" for meteorite hobbyist. Bummer for the 3gm L6 W4 "main mass" holders and those who only collect meteorites which fall in leap years -- whatever esoteric, artificial, insignificant distinction they assign to make their rock more valuable--must be unnerving to find out that the Met Bulletin wasn't set up just for them. Lets not make this one of those perverted usurpations like happened with "main mass". Main Mass holder publication, along with other major mass holders in the days before an ample supply of material , informed researchers where material was which might be available for comparative resarch. A "fall" designation establishes a specific date for for calibration amongst other things as to onset of radioactive decay/terrestrialization. There are several entries in both the Meteoritical Bulletin and Catalogue of Meteorites where a meteorite from an observed event was recovered months to years later. What the hobbyist wants to debate--the number of micrometeorites that can dance on the head of a pin is not yet a matter of scientific interest which merits elevation to a scientific category so far as I understand meteoritical science. That said, the number of meteorites which would need an extended fall designation is well under one tenth of one percent so in the words of Ms Emma Peel--"Where's the beef?" Really, now. This would at most affect less than a dozen actual specimens in all out collections combined. Elton ______________________________________________ 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
