Meteorite and meteoroid are, indeed, well defined.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.01009.x/abstract
Randy Korotev
At 10:02 AM 2012-08-20 Monday, you wrote:
They might reasonably call it an anti-meteoroid shelter, but the
fact is, "meteorite" is not well enough defined to say that once a
meteoroid impacts an object in space, it can't be called a
meteorite. I don't have a problem with the usage in the article.
Meteoroid and meteorite are reasonably interchangeable in this
context; the good thing is that they didn't call it an anti-meteor shelter.
Chris
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