Chris Peterson asked: "What would you call such a shelter?"
You would call it a bunker.
Dennis
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From: Jeff Grossman
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Vernacular of "Meteorite&
This is a meteoroid in space, which strikes an object while still in
space. If anything survives, it would be reasonably called a meteorite.
So you go from meteoroid to meteorite with no meteor phase in between.
The same scenario would apply to lunar meteorites. It is not necessary
to have a me
Well, a solid body would have to produce the characteristics of a
meteor wouldn't it? We know a solid object produces a meteor. Be it
grain sized (as in meteor showers) or large size as in Hoba for example.
Just asking!
Regards!
Tom
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the link to the Rubin/Grossman abstract that Randy
supplied earlier. And a lot of links to the IAU website had changed, so I
updated those as well.
Again, thanks for the enlightening discussion.
Bob V.
--- On Mon, 8/20/12, Randy Korotev wrote:
> From: Randy Korotev
> Subject:
Chris Peterson wrote:
What would you call such a shelter?
I'd call it the chapel, because if they have occasion to use it there
will be a whole lot of praying going on in there.
Chauncey
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The shield is clearly protecting against meteoroids. I don't think this
is ambiguous at all. Similarly, one might want to protect Earth from
asteroid impacts, but you would not say it needed protection from
meteorites. It isn't the leftover bits that present the hazard... it is
the incoming p
This does not make the terms well defined. It is only a proposal for a
more complex set of definitions. And even if widely adopted, it does not
remove the ambiguity in the case of this protective space shelter.
If the shelter is struck by a meteoroid, which then vaporizes, was it a
"meteoroid
Here is how Rubin and Grossman (2010) [MAPS 45, 114-122] dealt with this:
Another difficult situation arises when considering projectiles that
strike a spacecraft. For example, publications reporting on the Long
Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), which was exposed to interplanetary
space in lo
Meteorite and meteoroid are, indeed, well defined.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./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 de
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
Hi, all,
I don't recall this being discussed here before and hopefully I'm not being too
anal, but is the definition of "meteorite" evolving, or is it being used
improperly here (and frequently in the past when referring to the ISS and these
shields).
Cheers,
Pete
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