[meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Fall in Zimbabwe?

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Geoff N. wrote:
>But seriously, what does this final sentence  mean?

>>However, a meteorite on a celestial body is a small object  that 
>>has come from elsewhere in space.

>I read it over and  over, and it made my head go all funny. You 
>should try it  : )

>Geoff N.
>Smirking in  Tucson
 
Hola Geoff, Seriously, you say, juxtaposed with Monty  Python...hmm...ok, but 
first a little Monty Python humour for your hurting  brain...
 
All: Let's operate. 
(They begin to use woodworking implements on T. F. Gumby, a.k.a. GN.) 
T. F. Gumby: Hello! 
Surgeon Gumby: Ooh! We forgot the anaesthetic! 
Operating Gumbys: The anaesthetic! The anaesthetic!
(At that moment a Gumby anaesthetist comes crashing 
through the wall with two gas cylinders.) 
Gumby Anaesthetist: I've come to anaesthetize you!! 
(He raises a gas cylinder and strikes Gumby hard over the head mith it.  
Bong. Blackness.) 
 
And in seriousness:
Clearly, the author of the article is reefering to what a meteorite  is.  A 
meteorite is obviously an object on a celestial body that comes from  somewhere 
else in space, just like he says.  Nice concise definition!   I hope your 
head feels better now!
 
Meteoroids (referenced earlier in the article) which actually survive  
passage to arrive on the surface of another celestial body leave  meteorites.  Thus 
the definition is not limited to meteorites on Earth, but  covers those 
falling on the Moon, Mars, etc., which have also been seen or  collected lately.  
The reporter had it a little out of order, but I'd say  he was well on the right 
track when he recognized that Earth is not the only  celestially body that 
meteorites appear upon.
 
There!!
 
Saludos, Doug