[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

From: hall at meteorhall.com <hall_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 20:12:45 -0500
Message-ID: <f231b3ee33664ed8f5322952f27ae4a8.squirrel_at_emailmg.ipage.com>

   An "unobserved fall" is two words to describe the one word that has
been used for a century, "Find". The one word "Find" is good enough for
the Catalogue of Meteorites, it was good enough for Harvey Nininger,
and it is what I shall always use. Keep it concise.
Regards, Fred Hall



 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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