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From: jgpo@iham1.UUCP (John, KA9MNK)
Newsgroups: net.aviation,net.astro
Subject: Re: Something else to watch out for!
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 09:29:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 09:29:46 1985
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> In article <11270@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
> >What caused this? Well, the theory is that that airplane had the first 
> >observed encounter with a meteor. A several-ton meteor, of several meters
> >diameter, perhaps composed of mostly ice with some stony fragments, could
> >have hit that cloud layer on its way down through the atmosphere.
> 
> Shouldn't that be *meteorite*?
> 
>                              Seth Lipkin
>                              General Computer Company
>                              harvard!gcc-bill!lip
> 
> "Is art the mirror of life, or what?" 
>                                          - Woody Allen         

Only if it hit the surface of the earth without being completely vaporized,
according to Webster.


				John Opalko
				AT&T Bell Labs
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