[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

[Michael Farmer]

That would make sense for say New Orleans, where a stone went through a house and no one in their right mind would suggest that it did not fall at that time say between 8 am and 4 pm when there was no hole in the house, yet it was not seen to fall.
An old rock found in a field does not suggest anything about fall date. So it is a find, something never really argued against until now?
It has crust which can suggest it is not thousands of years old, most of our Springwater meteorites have black and blue crust but nevertheless it is a find.
Michael Farmer

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On Jan 4, 2013, at 10:28 AM, <valparint at aol.com> wrote:

> An "unobserved fall" is, well, a fall that was not observed, in contradistinction to a fall that was observed. The terminology of the Meteoritical Bulletin Database is "Observed fall: no".
> 
> The information being conveyed is NOT that the meteorite fell but that the fall was not observed.
> 
> In general, the questions about falling and finding are:
> 
> 1) was the fall observed?
> 2) if so, when was it observed?
> 3) if not, is there any guesstimate of when it fell?
> 4) regardless of weather it was observed or not, when was it actually found?
> 
> Paul Swartz
> MPOD webmaster
> 
>> What is an "unobserved fall"? Every meteorite fell at some point. I have thousands of unobserved falls in my collection.
>> Michael Farmer
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