Regarding Park Forest, Matteo wrote: >Historical?? Historical is after over minimum >40 years, no after 4 days....historical only >probably for the USA persons of the zone, >but for meteorite collectors is not >historical.
Maybe we're splitting hairs here. In Matteo's interpretation, historical is synonymous with "old". A certain passage of time must occur before a fall can be called historical. I don't know how we decide how many years must pass. Historical can also be use to convey the belief that something is "important" as in the phrase "today an historic event transpired". Most of us, when we hear "historical fall" probably think "old fall". But I know when I first heard the news of Park Forest, with all its' house smashing stones, I thought this was an historic fall. Historic as in important. That is why I said a few days ago that were I lucky enough to own a piece of one of the house smashers from this fall I would not need 50 years to know I owned a piece of meteorite history. Best, Charlie ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
