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Re: When Does a Meteorite become a Meteorite?
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- Subject: Re: When Does a Meteorite become a Meteorite?
- From: GeoZay@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:03:42 EDT
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Tom<<
I've always though of it this way (for whatever it's worth),
It's a meteoroid while in space, while visible upon entry a meteor, dark
flight it reverts to a meteoroid (after all, the only differance is the new
fusion crust right?)<<
Tom, from the definition of "meteoroid" there is a big difference to what it
use to be from that what it is during dark flight....it is no longer in space
and it no longer is the precursor to a meteor and it no longer has it's own
orbit. The only orbit it then has is the one that belongs to the earth.
Wherever the earth goes, it now has to follow. As for the fusion
crust....isn't this what a meteorite has? :o)
George
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