[meteorite-list] March 4 RSPOD Oriented (sic) 32kg stone

[Mr EMan]

Ok would someone that believes this is an accurate caption please
defend it.

 "Sean Northover, a student at Kennesaw Mountain High School,
confirming the weight of a fresh, ">>>ORIENTED<<<" 32.6 kg
chondrite"???
<http://www.rocksfromspace.org/March_4_2008.html>  This is too early
for April 1st.

To let bad and really bad psuedoscience take over all we had to do was
continue being silent on dubious claims. Now every other meteorite we
see is "oriented".  We know this is the truth because any new commer, 
meteorite owner, is magically, over night, an "expert" at identifying
and describing meteorite surface features.

If anyone wishes to declare a meteorite "oriented"-- anyone may do so
without a pittance of proof and no one on this list will ever object.
Because we refuse to define "oriented". 

Ergo, I have a perfect sphere meteorite that fell from my table to the
floor and under the imagination that makes EVERY single meteorite
"oriented" I can proclaim that my sphere is oriented having traveled
through the atmosphere.  Given the wide latitude used in claiming
orientation no one can disprove that I am not correct.

(OH YEAH  and it has perfect fusion crust because its drop was extended
for several seconds over a candle flame before reaching the floor).

I can proclaim it as a fully oriented, fully fusion crusted,
sphere-shaped "fall" and under the unfettered latitude we allow amongst
meteorite collectors no one can prove my description wrong.

So is this a hobby or a study of science?

Continually Baffled,
Elton