[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

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Mike,

The Meteoritical Bulletin Database uses the following terminology:

    Observed fall: No

Does that disturb you? 

Paul Swartz

> I find this new attempt to change terminology disturbing. I have hundreds of old catalogs from the top museums and dealers from more than 200 years ago till today, all of them list falls and finds. None of them discuss unobserved falls as an acceptable alternative. 
> Are we really ready to just accept anything thrown out there, and watch as all manner of BS is used to discredit hundreds of years of accepted terminology? 
> My private collection focuses on witnessed falls, with date and time and science to back it up. 
> I am not interested in another group which would include every meteorite ever to have fallen, since they did actually all fall at some point.
> Well, I guess Anne can delete her birthday fall calendar page since now we can simply put every NWA on any date you choose to believe it might have possibly fallen:).