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

[Rob Wesel]

"not that it has become good reference point for collectors, new and old."

I beg to differ Don, or did you not "edit" your description

Rob Wesel
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Rawlings" <psc2410xi at yahoo.com>
To: "Mr EMan" <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>; "metlist" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] March 4 RSPOD Oriented (sic) 32kg stone


> Not only is it not oriented.  The RSPOD has a
> responsibility to "edit" questionable descriptions not
> that it has become good reference point for
> collectors, new and old.
>
> My vote is to change the description.
>
> Don
>
> --- Mr EMan <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
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> Don Rawlings
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