Attention : sales of all unobserved falls are hereby suspended until further notice. ;)
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Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you > have > received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If > you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, > copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of > this information is strictly prohibited. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 5:36 PM > To: Anne Black > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day > > 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. 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