The last time I wasted half a dozen bytes was on a stale donut at a restaurant in Hanksville, Utah. Cheers, Fred Hall PS: Hanksville is a great place to hunt for rocks and the Mars Society station is just a few miles away. > > How about we compress it further and assign > > 0 for unobserved fall > and > 1 for observed fall? > > We could then use a flag and define them with a single bit, a logic > state of false for unobserved and true for observed? > > Or a null state for unobserved and true for observed? > > Substantially more efficient than the system described -- You're > wasting almost half a dozen bytes! > > ;-) > > --- Jodie > > Friday, January 4, 2013, 5:12:45 PM, you wrote: > >> 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 > > > > -- > Best regards, > Jodie mailto:[email protected] > >
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