[meteorite-list] March 4 RSPOD Oriented (sic) 32kg stone

[Don Rawlings]

Not only is it not oriented.  The RSPOD has a
responsibility to "edit" questionable descriptions not
that it has become good reference point for
collectors, new and old.

My vote is to change the description.

Don

--- Mr EMan <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Ok would someone that believes this is an accurate

> caption please

> defend it.

> 

>  "Sean Northover, a student at Kennesaw Mountain

> High School,

> confirming the weight of a fresh, ">>>ORIENTED<<<"

> 32.6 kg

> chondrite"???

> <http://www.rocksfromspace.org/March_4_2008.html> 

> This is too early

> for April 1st.

> 

> To let bad and really bad psuedoscience take over

> all we had to do was

> continue being silent on dubious claims. Now every

> other meteorite we

> see is "oriented".  We know this is the truth

> because any new commer, 

> meteorite owner, is magically, over night, an

> "expert" at identifying

> and describing meteorite surface features.

> 

> If anyone wishes to declare a meteorite "oriented"--

> anyone may do so

> without a pittance of proof and no one on this list

> will ever object.

> Because we refuse to define "oriented". 

> 

> Ergo, I have a perfect sphere meteorite that fell

> from my table to the

> floor and under the imagination that makes EVERY

> single meteorite

> "oriented" I can proclaim that my sphere is oriented

> having traveled

> through the atmosphere.  Given the wide latitude

> used in claiming

> orientation no one can disprove that I am not

> correct.

> 

> (OH YEAH  and it has perfect fusion crust because

> its drop was extended

> for several seconds over a candle flame before

> reaching the floor).

> 

> I can proclaim it as a fully oriented, fully fusion

> crusted,

> sphere-shaped "fall" and under the unfettered

> latitude we allow amongst

> meteorite collectors no one can prove my description

> wrong.

> 

> So is this a hobby or a study of science?

> 

> Continually Baffled,

> Elton

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Don Rawlings


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