An "unobserved fall" is two words to describe the one word that has been used for a century, "Find". The one word "Find" is good enough for the Catalogue of Meteorites, it was good enough for Harvey Nininger, and it is what I shall always use. Keep it concise. Regards, Fred Hall
That would make sense for say New Orleans, where a stone went through a > house and no one in their right mind would suggest that it did not fall at > that time say between 8 am and 4 pm when there was no hole in the house, > yet it was not seen to fall. > An old rock found in a field does not suggest anything about fall date. So > it is a find, something never really argued against until now? > It has crust which can suggest it is not thousands of years old, most of > our Springwater meteorites have black and blue crust but nevertheless it > is a find. > Michael Farmer > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 4, 2013, at 10:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> An "unobserved fall" is, well, a fall that was not observed, in >> contradistinction to a fall that was observed. The terminology of the >> Meteoritical Bulletin Database is "Observed fall: no". >> >> The information being conveyed is NOT that the meteorite fell but that >> the fall was not observed. >> >> In general, the questions about falling and finding are: >> >> 1) was the fall observed? >> 2) if so, when was it observed? >> 3) if not, is there any guesstimate of when it fell? >> 4) regardless of weather it was observed or not, when was it actually >> found? >> >> Paul Swartz >> MPOD webmaster >> >>> What is an "unobserved fall"? Every meteorite fell at some point. I >>> have thousands of unobserved falls in my collection. >>> Michael Farmer >>> > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
