Mike,
The Meteoritical Bulletin Database uses the following terminology:
Observed fall: No
Does that disturb you?
Paul Swartz
> I find this new attempt to change terminology disturbing. I have hundreds of
> old catalogs from the top museums and dealers from more than 200 years ago
> till today, all of them list falls and finds. None of them discuss unobserved
> falls as an acceptable alternative.
> Are we really ready to just accept anything thrown out there, and watch as
> all manner of BS is used to discredit hundreds of years of accepted
> terminology?
> My private collection focuses on witnessed falls, with date and time and
> science to back it up.
> I am not interested in another group which would include every meteorite ever
> to have fallen, since they did actually all fall at some point.
> Well, I guess Anne can delete her birthday fall calendar page since now we
> can simply put every NWA on any date you choose to believe it might have
> possibly fallen:).
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