Thanks for your note, Don. However, I'm not sure that "bad pseudoscience," mockery over an oriented sphere, "candle" generated fusion crust, "dubious claims" and the like are merely "questioning the orientation of the meteorite as shown in the photo." You started your own response with "Not only is it not oriented..." The photo was obviously not taken to show orientation in the first place. On the one hand I have little concern over trifles such as this, but on the other hand -- as I'm sure you could see in the images I sent to you and Elton (no response from him as of yet) -- this stone is oriented by any measure. It is of no concern of mine whether anyone believes this to be true, as, once again, the whole point of the image that Michael so graciously posted was to plant a seed that it might be a good idea -- even fun -- to share these meteorites with the next generation. One nice and unexpected attribute of this list is that occasionally it makes me feel young again -- just like being back in kindergarten. Best wishes for a wonderful day... Dave
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Rawlings Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:04 AM To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 3/4/2008 S.R.P.O.T.D. Bob, I think that is the point of how all this got started. That photo in RSPOTD does not show the orientation of the meteorite. Dave graciously pointed us all to his website for more photos. So it is possible that the ebay dealer wantabees could use that photo as proof that the meteorite collector list endorces an angular meteorite as orientated. I believe that the whole point Elton's original post and my original post was questioning the orientation of the meteorite as shown in the photo. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Orientation is the most misused term in the > Meteorite community. Orientation is a very obvious > result of stabilized flight. There are very clear > signs of this which you should be very aware of > already. > > Thanks, > Bob Don Rawlings ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list