I suppose the study of meteors could be meteoric!  :-))
But the study of Meteorites is certainly meteoritic.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: bill kies via Meteorite-list <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tue, May 10, 2016 4:59 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Invented words

I see "meteorics" used often to represent the study of meteorites. Shouldn't it 
be meteoritics? Could both ever be acceptable?

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