Hi Listees,

Thanks to you all who've written in with kind words and comments on my new article a few days back titled "What is a Meteorite Strewnfield?" I really appreciate your compliments. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you haven't read it yet please do so. It's a good informative read, and even has some pretty pictures too. ;)

The reason for this email is to ask about proper use of the word(s) strewnfield. While researching the article I noticed that the numerous websites on the internet had 2 ways of spelling the it. Should it be "Strewnfield" one word... or "Strewn Field" two seperate words?

Every time I type in strewnfield in a search it comes up with "Did you mean?" "strewn field" with a space. I've seen it described as "Strewn field" on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strewn_field Then in the paragraph just below it reads "strewnfield" all one word again. To make matters more confusing Encyclopedia Britannica has the word with a hyphen i.e; strewn-field. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/569002/strewn-field Google shows 67,500 results for the phrase "strewn field" and the same amount for strewn-field" with a hyphen, meaning they don't recognize the hyphen. Google also shows 23,700 results for the single word "strewnfield". Not to mention the many articles and papers all over the internet with ALL 3 ways of usage of the word.

So which is it? or does it really matter?

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
www.meteoritesusa.com







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