: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
Alan Rubin and I advocated calling all of these things meteorites no
matter what body they were found on. Our definition was as follows,
quoting
from the article:
A meteorite is a natural solid object that was transported by natural
means from
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From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
Frank, etc.,
Nope. You didn't understand all of what I said. The first part is
right: we don't care if there was a meteor
What would be the correct thing to call an impactor like Hadley Rille or
Bench Crater? I gather that 'meteorite' refers only to things that impact
Earth; how about things that hit other planets? Eventually we will find
more foreign bodies on other planets; may as well get the language
Hi Tracy,
What would be the correct thing to call an impactor like Hadley Rille or
Bench Crater? I gather that 'meteorite' refers only to things that impact
Earth; how about things that hit other planets?
On this list I've seen the words lunaite and lunarite. I've always
assumed the former
) as compared
to meteorites found on Earth? Any one have any ideas?
Thanks,
Frank
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From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
Alan Rubin and I advocated
,
Frank
- Original Message -
From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
Alan Rubin and I advocated calling all of these things meteorites no
matter what body they were
, 2003 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
Frank, etc.,
Nope. You didn't understand all of what I said. The first part is
right: we don't care if there was a meteor or whether the body doing the
accreting had no atmosphere. Once the impactor survives landing
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