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

[Meteoriteshow]

Hi All,

I agree with you Doug. It happens so often that journalists say or write big mistakes when talking about meteorites - and also here
in France - that I just find this article quite well and simply written. The words used are the right ones and we can easily
understand that villagers could have been surprised that this object fallen from the sky is a stone! Just imagine the reaction of
someone who never heard anything about meteorites and who just does not know that they exist and therefore how they can look like...
So this article describes the phenomenon in a way that can be understood by readers, even those who do not know what a meteorite is,
and once again I do not see any wrong word nor definition.
All the best!

Frederic
www.meteoriteshow.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <MexicoDoug at aol.com>
To: <geoking at notkin.net>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Fall in Zimbabwe?


> 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
>
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