[meteorite-list] Meteorite found, per local press

[Chris Peterson]

As if educating people about the difference between meteors, meteoroids, 
and meteorites wasn't already difficult enough, now we have "meteor 
rocks" (I guess most people here think "meteors rock", however <g>).

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Miller" <meteoritefinder at gmail.com>
To: "R Juhl" <bartraj2 at mac.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite found, per local press


> Keep trying Nancy that one is not a freshly fallen meteorite.
>
> On 2/6/07, R Juhl <bartraj2 at mac.com> wrote:
>> The Belleville, Illinois local newspaper ran the below article with a
>> photo of the suspected meteorite over the midwest.
>> (http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/columnists/16632503.htm)
>>
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>>
>> It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... meteor rock?