[meteorite-list] "Find", "Fall" Terminology

[Greg Hupé]

I find that I prefer 'fall' and 'find' as well, straight to the point. Now I 
better get back to work before I fall behind any more!! ;-)

Best Regards,
Greg

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Thomas Webb
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 5:51 PM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] "Find", "Fall" Terminology

All,
The terms "find" and "fall" are concise and understood by everyone in the 
meteorite community.  I don't see the need to introduce terms that may lead 
to more ambiguity.  For example:  if "find" is changed to "unobserved fall" 
in describing a meteorite it could possibly be an outright false statement 
since it could have been observed by many people but never reported or 
recorded.   Also, do we include other animals when we refer to "observed"? 
Who knows who or what observed one of those that we call "find",  so let's 
just leave it at that and continue to call it a "find".   The term "fall" as 
it is now used means that we have a pretty good record that someone actually 
saw it streak through the atmosphere and recoveries were soon made in the 
projected fall area.  In some cases people have witnessed the actual impact 
or impacts as they happened but this is not required to call it a fall. 
Occasionally it may be years before a witnessed event produces
recovered meteorites but if we know the fall area we can tie it to the event 
and still call it a probable fall and end up using just "fall" with a fairly 
high degree of accuracy.
For practicality and to tie in with what has been used and understood for 
years, I think we should continue to use the terms "find" and "fall".
My best,
Thomas

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