Right, Anne. That is why they are referred to as a "Fall" or a "Find". Concise! Cheers, Fred Hall
> Every single meteorite ever found on Earth is necessarily the result of > a fall, they are not native to Earth. The only difference is that some > falls are seen, witnessed, and some, the vast majoriry, are not. > > So calling them Observed or Unobserved falls is logical. That is what > happened to all of them. > That is simple reality. > > > Anne M. Black > www.IMPACTIKA.com > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > tFrom: hall <[email protected]> > To: Michael Farmer <[email protected]> > Cc: meteorite-list <[email protected]>; valparint > <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 6:13 pm > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day > > > 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 > > > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
