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

[Rob Wesel]

"not that it has become good reference point for collectors, new and old."

I beg to differ Don, or did you not "edit" your description

Rob Wesel
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Rawlings" <psc2410xi at yahoo.com>
To: "Mr EMan" <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>; "metlist" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] March 4 RSPOD Oriented (sic) 32kg stone



> 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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