[meteorite-list] Question about oriented meteorites
JKGwilliam
h3chondrite at cox.net
Mon Dec 6 10:11:47 EST 2004
Jonathan Gore's response on this issue explains why the word "orientated"
doesn't seem correct usage with us Americans. Like Mike and Rob, my brain
automatically labels it as incorrect when I read it even though it is
considered interchangeable with "oriented."
JKGwilliam
At 10:33 PM 12/5/2004, Matson, Robert wrote:
>Have to agree with Mike on this one -- "orientated" has an awful
>sound to it. I flinch nearly as much when I see that word as I do
>reading "proof" when "prove" is meant, and "prove" when "proof" is
>meant (how do people confuse the two?)
>
>So that this post is somewhat more meteorite-related, I note (as
>I believe another list member did a day or so ago) that something
>is wrong with the story about the supposed iron fall in Sri Lanka:
>
>"The object weighing 47.015 kg with a 4.75 specific gravity was
>fallen..."
>
>Either the specific gravity is wrong (or in unfamiliar units), or
>the mass is wrong, or the object isn't an iron meteorite. I suppose
>it could still be another type of meteorite (meso or pallasite?)
>
>--Rob
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