[meteorite-list] PALEO Meteorite||||Was Very Rare NWA2828

[Mark]

Hi Dean and List

Dean, I do agree. Paleo-anything has an anthropomorphic connotation about 
it. Relic has a manmade feel to it. Fossil denotes something once extent, 
now dead and what we have are it's mineralized bones and traces.

Prius means before, maybe that would be less of a problem.

Mark Ferguson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dean bessey" <deanbessey at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:41 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] PALEO Meteorite||||Was Very Rare NWA2828


> --- Matt Morgan <mmorgan at mhmeteorites.com> wrote:
>> How long does it take to be considered "paleo"? All
>> the means is "old".
>> Please shed some light on this for me...
>> Matt Morgan
>>
> I dont think that "Paleo" is a proper way to describe
> them as these meteorites are not paleolithic.
> Paleolithic is an era starting just before mesolithic
> (13,000 or somewhere around that years ago - I cant
> remember exactly) going back to the dawn of man which
> is around 2.5 million years ago.
> Well there is dispute when the first man showed up but
> it certainly wasnt 110 million years ago like the Lake
> murrey "paleo" meteorite which is a Cretaceous
> meteorite - not a paleolithic one.
> "Relic", which has also been used is a much better
> word to describe these meteorites.
> Cheers
> DEAN
> www.meteoriteshop.com
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