Re: Extinction

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/23/00 8:49:27 PM EST, bh162@scn.org writes:

<< On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
 
 > At the risk of sounding tedious and earning a justifiable censure from the 
 > list manager for continuing a non-dinosaurian thread beyond all regulatory 
 > bounds, it's not a meteorite until it hits the ground (according to the 
 > proffered definitions), so it has to be a meteoroid. >>

Reread the proffered definitions, and yes, according to them it's a meteorite 
once it hits the atmosphere, not just when it hits the ground. However, I've 
forgotten the point of the thread. (That "bolide impact" is a misnomer? Well, 
this term is used in lots of places in the literature.)