Everything, what obtained its shape during and from flight, is an individual. Everything what obtained its rough shape on ground (break-off while impact, wheathering, wind blast)is a fragment.
Exception: Break-off in low altitudes (Tatahouine, Some Sikhotes, ect..). Exception 2: Irons. Everything, which is not a shrapnel or has a cut surface, people call "individual". Common use today: All stones are called individuals, as long as they have no larger fresh fractured portions (that means: broke off yesterday) of the surface. See ebay. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Marcin Cimala Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 20:42 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Whole individual > Hi all, > > What is the exact definition of a whole individual? Is it considered whole as long as it hasn't been altered by man? To me any stone that was found is a whole individual or at least an indivdual even though it may have fragmented in flight. What are the parameters? > > Thanks, > Bill Good question. What about specimen that was broken on desert by weathering to many pieces. They are fragments or whole individuals ? Im asking becouse I have some piesces that comes from different falls and they are very weathered (something like Dean selling now). I cant say that this 4 pieces or other are broken fragments from one specimen, becouse every piece propably comes from different fall or from the same. -----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]----- http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 --------[ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ]-------- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list