"not that it has become good reference point for collectors, new and old."
I beg to differ Don, or did you not "edit" your description
Rob Wesel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Rawlings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mr EMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "metlist"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] March 4 RSPOD Oriented (sic) 32kg stone
Not only is it not oriented. The RSPOD has a
responsibility to "edit" questionable descriptions not
that it has become good reference point for
collectors, new and old.
My vote is to change the description.
Don
--- Mr EMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok would someone that believes this is an accurate
caption please
defend it.
"Sean Northover, a student at Kennesaw Mountain
High School,
confirming the weight of a fresh, ">>>ORIENTED<<<"
32.6 kg
chondrite"???
<http://www.rocksfromspace.org/March_4_2008.html>
This is too early
for April 1st.
To let bad and really bad psuedoscience take over
all we had to do was
continue being silent on dubious claims. Now every
other meteorite we
see is "oriented". We know this is the truth
because any new commer,
meteorite owner, is magically, over night, an
"expert" at identifying
and describing meteorite surface features.
If anyone wishes to declare a meteorite "oriented"--
anyone may do so
without a pittance of proof and no one on this list
will ever object.
Because we refuse to define "oriented".
Ergo, I have a perfect sphere meteorite that fell
from my table to the
floor and under the imagination that makes EVERY
single meteorite
"oriented" I can proclaim that my sphere is oriented
having traveled
through the atmosphere. Given the wide latitude
used in claiming
orientation no one can disprove that I am not
correct.
(OH YEAH and it has perfect fusion crust because
its drop was extended
for several seconds over a candle flame before
reaching the floor).
I can proclaim it as a fully oriented, fully fusion
crusted,
sphere-shaped "fall" and under the unfettered
latitude we allow amongst
meteorite collectors no one can prove my description
wrong.
So is this a hobby or a study of science?
Continually Baffled,
Elton
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